I have this autogenerated variable:
$var = "WXYZ 300700Z 32011KT 9999 FEW035 SCT200 24/16 Q1007 NOSIG";
How can I search and save "9999" in this var? I cant use substr cause $var's value is always changing and it is always in another "place" in the variable. It is always 4 numbers.
You can match 4 numbers wrapped by word boundaries or space characters, depending on what you need with regular expression (regex/regexp).
if( preg_match('/\b([0-9]{4})\b/', $var, $matches) > 0 ) {
// $matches[1] contains the number
}
Note, however, that the word boundary match will also match on non-letter characters (symbols like dollar sign ($), hyphen (-), period (.), comma (,), etc.). So a string of "XYZ ABC 9843-AB YZV" would match the "9843". If you want to just match based on numbers surrounded by white space (spaces, tabs, etc) you can use:
if( preg_match('/(?:^|\s)([0-9]{4})(?:\s|$)/', $var, $matches) > 0 ) {
// $matches[1] contains the number
}
Using explode is the way to go, we need to turn the string into an array, our variables are separated by white space, so we get a variable every time we face a white space " ", i made another example to understand how explode works.
<?php
$var = "WXYZ 300700Z 32011KT 9999 FEW035 SCT200 24/16 Q1007 NOSIG";
print_r (explode(" ",$var)); //Display the full array.
$var_search = explode(" ",$var);
echo $var_search[3];//To echo the 9999 (4th position).
?>
<br>
<?php
$var = "WXYZ+300700Z+32011KT+9999+FEW035+SCT200+24/16+Q1007+NOSIG";
print_r (explode("+",$var)); //Display the full array.
$var_search = explode("+",$var);
echo $var_search[3];//To echo the 9999 (4th position).
?>
I hop this is what you're looking for
Is this viable?
$var = "WXYZ 300700Z 32011KT 9999 FEW035 SCT200 24/16 Q1007 NOSIG";
if (strpos($var, '9999') == true {
// blah blah
}
else{
echo 'Value not found'
}
Personally haven't tested this yet, but I think you're looking for something along these lines...
Hello I would use a preg_match regex using this regular expression : \d{4}
here is the solution
var str1 = "WXYZ 300700Z 32011KT 9999 FEW035 SCT200 24/16 Q1007 NOSIG";
var str2 = "9999";
if(str1.indexOf(str2) != -1){
console.log(str2 + " found");
}
