I have a string as
$line = "Name=johnGender=M";
How to make a string called $name that will have a value stored as john.
How to extract a sub-string which is enclosed between = and G in the string $line.
OR grab a sub-string of 4 characters from the first encounter of = (this will work for me).
What if $line=array("Name=john&Gender=M",Name=carl&Gender=M",); And I wanted to put them in an array $name So that $name=array("john", "carl");
Suppose we dont know the length of the name. Say,
$line = "Name=SaifUrRehmanGender=M";
Use strpos() to get the index of "Gender"
The strpos() function finds the position of the first occurrence of a string inside another string.
For your case:
$name = substr($line,5,strpos($line,"Gender")-5); will do :)
Output: SaifUrRehman
I guess the following would work for you.
$name = array();
foreach($line as $elem)
array_push($name,substr(explode("=",$elem)[1],0,4));
So you can access it as $name[0],$name[1],...
Better try to have the input syntax as
$line = array("Name=john&Gender=M","Name=raja&Gender=M");
parse_str($line);
So you can use the built-in function parse_str().
Now $Name[0] contains john and $Name[1] contains raja.
foreach(); before would you write me a code. Including my above written code.Try this :
function strinbetween($inputstring, $start, $end){
$inputstring = " ".$inputstring;
$ini = strpos($inputstring,$start);
if ($ini == 0) {
return "";
}
$ini += strlen($start);
$len = strpos($inputstring,$end,$ini) - $ini;
return substr($inputstring,$ini,$len);
}
Call the above function and pass the string, starting string and ending string
$line = "Name=johnGender=M";
$parsed = strinbetween($line,'=','G');
echo $parsed;
So here it will return john
<?php
$line = "Name=johnGender=M";
//explode the string by '='
$info = explode('=', $line);
//then you have in $info[1] this string: johnGender
// and you get the first 4 characters in $name
$name = substr($info[1], 0, 4);
echo $name;
?>
Output:
john
<?php
$line = array("Name=john&Gender=M","Name=carl&Gender=M");
$array = array();
for($i = 0; $i < count($line); $i++) {
$info = explode('=', $line[$i]);
$name = explode('&', $info[1]);
$array[] = $name[0];
}
foreach($array as $name) {
echo $name . "<br>\n";
}
?>
Output:
john
carl
$line = "Name=john&Gender=M";This seems to me like it would be very problematic.