Question

as I am new to php, and after googling 🙂 I still could not find what I wanted to do.

I have been able to find start and end position in string that i want to extract but most of the example use strings or characters or integers to get string between but I could not find string bewteen two positions.

For example:
$string = “This is a test trying to extract”;
$pos1 = 9; $pos2 = 14;

Then I get lost. I need to get the text between position 9 and 14 of of the string.
Thanks.

Answer 1

$startIndex = min($pos1, $pos2);
$length = abs($pos1 - $pos2);

$between = substr($string, $startIndex, $length);