Between string

[Anon]

does any one know a function to find every thing between two point in a sting?

$string = "say this is my string that I want to cut down";

$1 = "this";
$2 = "want";

I want everything between $1 and $2.

It's probibly dead easy. I just can't figure it out.

thanks

ash

[Anon]

I don't believe there is a "built-in" function for what you want, but you can use ereg() for what you want, here is a quick little function to do what you want. Hope this helps.

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function in_string($string, $start, $end)
{
ereg($start.".*".$end, $string, $block);
$startlen = strlen($start);
$endlen = strlen($end);
return substr($block[0], $startlen, -$endlen);

}

Here is an example of how to use:

$string = "say this is my string that I want to cut down";

$cutdown = in_string($string, "this", "want");

Now $cutdown will contain:

" is my string that I "

Hope this helps ya...

Derek

[Anon]

Thanks bud.

just what i needed