Find a string between two other strings using a regex in php?

Question

Is there a function in php to search a string and find a sub string based on it being between two defined character sets?

I am trying to search through a few files using a php script and grab a string from them.

the string i need is a URL, each file has a string that looks like this with a different url inside

/A << /URI (https://www.website/custom_ url_per_file)
/S /URI >>    //an actual linebreak in the code

I have all the files opening in a foreach loop, so how can i extract the url between the 2 strings $a and $b?

$a = /A << /URI
$b = /S /URI >>

You're looking for "non-greedy capturing group": /$prefix(.+?)$suffix/. — georg
– georg, Commented Sep 23, 2014 at 10:04

voldomazta · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-23 10:07:04Z

1

<?php

$string = '/A << /URI (https://www.website/custom_ url_per_file)
/S /URI >>    //an actual linebreak in the code';

preg_match('#/A << /URI \(([^\)]+)\)\s+\/S /URI >>#', $string, $matches);

print_r($matches);

?>

will result to:

Array
(
[0] => /A << /URI (https://www.website/custom_ url_per_file)
/S /URI >>
[1] => https://www.website/custom_ url_per_file
)

answered Sep 23, 2014 at 10:07

voldomazta

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