PHP strip string

Question

$var = 'Click on this <a href="#">link</a>. (goes to heaven) (and then somewhere else)';

How to get the text, which is placed between first brackets?

Throw its value to $extra

In this example $extra = 'goes to heaven'

Thanks.

Artefacto · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-09 15:40:07Z

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preg_match("/\\((.+?)\\)/", $var, $matches);
$extra = $matches[1];

This is strictly true for the example you provided. If you are parsing arbitrary HTML, you'll have to use DOMDocument or similar instead.

answered Aug 9, 2010 at 15:40

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