Get substring of a complex string in php

Question

I have the following string:

"@String RT @GetThisOne: Natio"

How can I get "GetThisOne" from this string?

You really need to expand on your problem statement. Are you trying to get the name after RT? Could there be more than one? Etc. — Aerik
– Aerik, Commented Nov 11, 2011 at 17:22
You need to be more specific... will the position of your text change from string to string? What you want is probably going to be a regular expression... — Bryan
– Bryan, Commented Nov 11, 2011 at 17:23
Do you mean taht you want to extract "GetThisOne" from a string ? Do you mean tou need to extract the string between @ and : ? What have you try so far ? What doesn't work ? — Luc M
– Luc M, Commented Nov 11, 2011 at 17:23

Benjamin Crouzier · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-11 18:09:55Z

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You can use preg_match like this:

<?php

$string = "@String RT @GetThisOne: Natio";
preg_match('/@.*@([A-Za-z]*)/', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1]; // outputs GetThisOne

Here, the pattern is the folowing: find an numeric string after the second @. Ideone example.

edited Nov 11, 2011 at 18:09

answered Nov 11, 2011 at 17:34

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Tom · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-11 17:21:29Z

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You can use the substr function.

answered Nov 11, 2011 at 17:21

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Hamikzo · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-11 17:24:32Z

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Find "@" position, and calculate position of ":" after the "@" found.

$at = strpos($string,'@');

substr($string,$at,strpos($string,':',$at)-$at);

answered Nov 11, 2011 at 17:24

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Robbo_UK · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-11 17:34:10Z

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You could always try php explode function

$string = "@String RT @GetThisOne: Natio"

$arr = explode('@', $string);

if(is_array($arr) && count($arr)>0)
{
   echo $arr[0]."\n";
   echo $arr[1];
}

will echo out

String RT

GetThisOne: Natio

answered Nov 11, 2011 at 17:34

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