Getting Text After...

[Anon]

Hi,

I'm just wondering how to read text AFTER a specific set of characters, lets say I have this:

CCC3

How could I just read the 3 w/o the CCC or the comma?

Thanks!

[Anon]

What you want to do is probalby best handled with a regex. As long as what you are looking for falls into a pattern then this is the easiest way to get it.

preg_match("/CCC(.*[^,]),/", $string, $matches);

Or something like that. You may have to play around with the regex to make it work properly.

[Anon]

Sorry, i never put the comma in...it should be after the 3 so (CCC3,). Thanks!

[kparker]

same difference. You can probably do this fine with non-preg as well:

if (ereg( "CCC3,(*)$", $raw_data, $after_ccc3 ))
   echo "Here is is: " . $after_ccc3[0] ;
else
   echo "No match";

[Anon]

Depends on how many he wants. ereg() only/always returns 10 matches, unless this has been changed reciently. I stopped using ereg once I ran into this little bugger once.