Need help with a regular expression.
1) Format:
Advisor Geologist – HighMount Exploration & Production LLC – Oklahoma City, OK
I'd like to get the text between the last character and the dash. ie. Oklahoma City, OK. Note the text might contain multiple dashes.
Tried this:
~-([.*$]+)~
Trying to get between the dash and the end of the string (.*$). Need to know how to check for the last occurrence of the dash.
You don't need a regular expression, explode() the string on the dash, and take the last element.
$str = 'Advisor Geologist – HighMount Exploration & Production LLC – Oklahoma City, OK';
$arr = explode( '–', $str);
$last = trim( end( $arr));
echo $last;
Much more efficient.
$str aren't dashes, they are something else.
end() so Thanks!If you need to use regex, then go with
$pattern = '/[^\s–-][^–-]*?(?=\s*$)/';
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches);
Test this demo here.
var_dump() $matches I just get the whole string. The string I passed in was "VP of Exploration - Global Recruiters of Dallas - Houston, TX"- but –). Adjusted it again so that it work with both characters. Try again pleaseIf you need a regex, this is the simplest one I can think of:
'/\s*([^-]+)\s*$/'
Let's see how it works:
\s* matches zero or more whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, etc.)([^-]+) matches one or more characters that are not dashes\s* matches zero or more whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, etc.)$ matches the end of the stringPlease note that what the – character in your post is not a simple dash. It is some other Unicode character. If you need to match that too, you should update the regex this way:
'/\s*([^-–]+)\s*$/'
Here is a code sample:
preg_match(
'/\s*([^-]+)\s*$/',
'Advisor Geologist – HighMount Exploration & Production LLC - Oklahoma City, OK',
$matches);
$city = $matches[1];
- inside of [...] if - is first, last or only one in...Also strrpos() can help.
$str = 'Advisor Geologist – HighMount Exploration & Production LLC – Oklahoma City, OK';
$result = trim(substr($str, strrpos($str, '-')+1));
For fixed formats you can use list() & explode():
$str = 'Advisor Geologist – HighMount Exploration & Production LLC – Oklahoma City, OK';
list($occupation, $company, $city) = explode('-', $str);
