extract from variable

[Brian3864]

How would I go about extracting everything between some specifie characters? If I have something like

$myname = 'My name is \'Brian\';';

How would I go about extracting the name between the single quotes?

[Installer]

Here's one way:

if ((($pos_1 = strpos($myname, "'") + 1) !== false) &&
    (($pos_2 = strpos($myname, "'", $pos_1)) !== false)) {
    echo substr($myname, $pos_1, $pos_2 - $pos_1);
}

[Megahertza]

Heres another way.

<?php
$myname = 'My name is \'Brian\';'; 
$parts = explode("'",$myname);
echo $parts[0]." "; /* My name is */
echo $parts[1]; /* Brian */
/* echo out $parts[2] will output just the ; */
?>