Special string matching

[Sleidia]

Hello again,

Sorry for asking another question today, but
I would like to know what function I should use
in order to match a string surounded by certain characters.

Thus, if $string="wow, this is a #funny! string.",
$matched_string would be "funny".

As usual, thanks to you all.

 

[erikkk]

Don't know if it's helpful but, probably, if you know the characters position you could use substr_replace:

es: $var = 'ABCDEFGH:/MNRPQR/';

//This example replace 'MNRPQR' in $var with 'bob'

echo substr_replace($var, 'bob', 10, -1);
bye

 

[Sleidia]

Dear Erikk,

Thanks you for helping.
Unfortunately, in this case, I can't know
the character position.
That's why I have to use such a trick wich is
quite difficult to code considered I am not a
"god like" coder at all.

Thanks again.

 

[AnakinPt]

use regular expressions

ereg

http://www.php.net/ereg

Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin_jedi@hotmail.com

 

[Sleidia]

Dear Anikin,

In fact, I've used a different approach because
I didn't manage to do it with regular expressions.

This is where you will see what I've done:
thread434-205364 anyway.