Searching a String for an unknown length

[Anon]

hope that subject is adequate 🙂

ok, so basically what i need to do is search the following example string.

HELLO USER SETH (NETBLK-SETH-00101)

The tricky thing is that I need to extract what is inside of that parenthesis and store it to a variable. THe problem is that I really have no idea what could appear after (NETBLK-

Any ideas?

[Anon]

$name = ereg_replace("NETBLK-([a-zA-Z0-9]+)-[0-9]+", '\1',$orig);

something like that...

paul
http://xhawk.net

[Anon]

To return the bit enclosed by parentheses in a string like

$string="HELLO USER SETH (NETBLK-SETH-00101) "

ereg("((NETBLK-.+))",$string,$match);

$match[1] would then (in the case of the supplied example) contain "NETBLK_SETH-00101"

Assumes
1: you insist the substring starts with "NETBLK-". Leave that bit off if you don't
2: There's only one parenthesised section per string.