Find certain text within a PHP variable string

Question

Basically I'll be having a string that looks like

#schedule take out trash #in 20

and I need to be able to pull out "take out trash" and "20" and put them in their own variables. Possible?

Phil · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-17 06:13:52Z

2

Use preg_match, for example

if (preg_match('/#schedule (.+?) #in (\d+)/', $string, $matches)) {
    // found matches
    $instruction = $matches[1];
    $time = $matches[2];
}

answered Dec 17, 2010 at 6:13

Phil

166k25 gold badges265 silver badges269 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Comments

Brad Mace · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-17 06:14:25Z

1

list($task, $delay) = preg_split("/\s?#(\w+)\s?/")

should work for anything in that general format unless you need to worry about people putting # in the task name

answered Dec 17, 2010 at 6:14

Brad Mace

28k19 gold badges110 silver badges152 bronze badges