How to get strings after specific patterns

January 12, 2022

I have strings that looks like this:

searchUniqueCode("name", "FF14_1451_DAD4");searchUniqueCode("name", "F1F1_1451_DAD4");
searchUniqueCode("name", "FF14_3121_DAD4");searchUniqueCode("name", "SH14_1451_DAD4");
searchUniqueCode("name", "FF14_1131_DAD4");searchUniqueCode("name", "FF14_1451_D31F");

And I am trying to get all of the strings under " " after the common pattern searchUniqueCode("name", Like the FF14_1451_DAD4.

Is there any way I can achieve that using PHP?

Thank you!

>Solution :

Try this regex:

searchUniqueCode\("name",\s*"\K[^"]+

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Check code here

Explanation:

searchUniqueCode\("name", – matches searchUniqueCode\("name",
\s*" – matches 0 or more occurrences of a white-space followed by a "
\K – un-matches whatever has been matched so far and starts the match from the current position
[^"]+ – matches 1 or more occurrences of any character that is not a ". This is the desired match that will match everything until the next occurrence of "

You can capture the desired values in group 1 as shown below:

searchUniqueCode\("name",\s*"([^"]+)" – Working code here