Get data between "first" and "second"

Hi--

I saw a topic like this a week or so ago on phpbuilder but now I can't seem to find it 🙁

How can I get the data in between, for example "first" and "second" ?

Thanks! 🙂

There isn't anything between first and second. The aint no 1st and a 1/2 prize you know! 🙂

What exactly do you meen?

I mean like:

$var = "firstthisisthedataiwantsecond";

When I get the things in between "first" and "second" I will be getting "thisisthedataiwant"

Sorry 😃

Anyone? :bemused:

Bump

One way is to use [man]strpos/man to find the position of the two strings, and then use [man]substr/man to get the portion in between.

Another way is to use [man]preg_match/man, e.g.

if (preg_match('/first(.*)last/',  $var, $matches) {
	// now use $matches[1]
}

Works great!

Thanks 😃