Question

How to get a substring between two strings in PHP

Answer 1

function substring_between_two_strings($s, $start, $end) {
    $s = ' ' . $s;
    $startpos = strpos($s, $start);
    if ($startpos == 0) return '';
    $startpos += strlen($start);
    $len = strpos($s, $end, $startpos) - $startpos;
     
    return trim(substr($s, $startpos, $len));
}

$s = 'PHP is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development.';
 
$subs = substring_between_two_strings($s, 'especially', 'development');
 
echo $subs; 
 
 
 
/*
run:
 
suited to web
 
*/

 

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