Strip IP address from string 1

[MichiganRon]

I will be receiving a string containing an IP address and domain name.

Example:
mydomain.com[192.168.245.13]

I need to strip the IP address out and add it to a variable. In other words, I need to keep the IP address and nothing else.

The construction of the string will always contain the IP address within square brackets.

I'm looking for the most efficient way to do this.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ron

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[sleipnir214]

The script:

<?php

$a = 'mydomain.com[192.168.245.13]';

$begin = strpos ($a, '[');
$end = strpos ($a, ']');

print substr($a, $begin + 1, $end - $begin - 1);
?>

outputs:

[tt]192.168.245.13[/tt]



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[MichiganRon]

Perfect!!

I had a brainfart. I should have been able to figure that one out myself. I was trying to use regular expressions. BLAH!

Thanks!

Ron

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[sleipnir214]

Regular expressions were my first thought, too. Then I got to the part of your post which reads, "I'm looking for the most efficient way to do this." The PHP online manual has multiple NOTEs to not use regexes unless necessary.



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