parse question

[KashKurcura]

hello everyone.. i am hoping someone can help me out here.. my question how would i parse out the "86013521" between the brackets in the below example, and get the value into a new variable?

$Text = "the ticket number of your reply is [86013521]";

$Var = "86013521";

If someone can show me how, that would be great.. thanks

[bradgrafelman]

Probably the easiest way would be regular expressions...

preg_match('/\[([0-9]+)\]/', $Text, $matches);
list(,$Var) = $matches;

[laserlight]

If, by some accident, the number is not present, bradgrafelman will access an array element that does not exist. I would suggest a modification to either:

if (preg_match('/\[(\d+)\]/', $Text, $matches)) {
    $Var = $matches[1];
    // ...
} else {
    // Report an error.
}

or:

$Var = preg_match('/\[(\d+)\]/', $Text, $matches) ? $matches[1] : 'some default value';
// ...