I’m trying to check if a variable has a number that starts with >> i.e., >>12345 and then seperate that number into a different variable.
For example:
$my_string = "
>>12345
Hello this is an example string.
";
I’d like to store the ‘>>12345’ in the database as a seperate variable. Similar to image boards.
Feel free to ask questions if this doesn’t make sense 🙂 Thanks in advance.
>Solution :
This is easily done with a regular expression:
<?php
$my_string = "
>>12345
Hello this is an example string.
";
preg_match("/(>>\d+)/", $my_string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];
The Regex looks for >>followed by any number of numeric digits, then captures that group into the $matches array.
Demo: https://3v4l.org/cKE6J