[RESOLVED] More string handling; return part of string

[ManWithNoName]

I am currently looking through the PHP manual for a way to return part of a string, e.g.

$str = '(number:1)';

$i = preg_return(number:[0-9]*, $str);

which would echo me back a "1".

strstr() would kind of have been nice, but then I would get the last parenthesis also.

One way I could do this is using preg_replace and kind of remove all other strings and only return the number, but I feel that there should be a "easier" (read: better) way to do this...

[ManWithNoName]

substr() seems to be another way of doing this... But then again, if the numbers would exceed 9...

[ManWithNoName]

... Hell, i will go with preg_replace, I will probably find a better way to do this later when I keep learning about PHP.