Posted by Allen on 02/08/06 01:33

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:05:32 -0500, David Moore
<dave_m_moore@post2me.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I expect someone can crack this one in no time.
>
> Ok, what I'd like to do is to match a pattern in a string and extract a
> portion of it. For example if I had a string like:

I prefer using the preg functions to extract parts of strings, but that
requires at least a basic understanding of regular expressions. At any
rate, if you want to capture all instances of word(number) you could do
this:
preg_match_all('/[a-z]+\(([0-9]+)\)/im',$string,$matches);

$matches[0] would be an array of apples(20), pears(30) etc.,
$matches[1] would be an array of all the numbers (20, 30, etc.)

regex match result -> http://tinyurl.com/9yrmc

A.

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