extracting useful data from text

[graziano]

Hello

I have a long variable similar to the following ...

$data=" text text text house cars [ball] test boat [one two three] ball toy text text a lot of text [nice ball] other text";

I would extract from $data and put on $test array only the text which is between
[] . So in the example above I would have an array with 3 values

[0] ball
[1] one two three
[2] nice ball

Anyone can help me to code this ?

Thank you

[laserlight]

One easy way is to use regular expressions, e.g., with [man]preg_match_all/man.

$test = array();
if (preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/', $data, $matches)) {
    $test = $matches[1];
}

[graziano]

Thank you!!!

[laserlight]

You're welcome 🙂
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