Question

could you help me with the regex for the following examples:

lorem ipsum size large lorem ipsum

or

lorem ipsum size m lorem ipsum

or

lorem ipsum size 39.5 lorem ipsum 

so in short I am trying to extract one word/string after the word/delimter size until the following white space. so in the above examples it would be (in order): large, m, 39.5.

Any ideas?

Quick update:
could you please include also a possibility of

size:$(size)

or

size: $(size)

or

size $(size)

Answer 1

$strings = array(
    'lorem ipsum size large lorem ipsum',
    'lorem ipsum size m lorem ipsum',
    'lorem ipsum size 39.5 lorem ipsum ',
);
foreach ( $strings as $string ) {
    if ( preg_match('#\bsize\b\s+(\S+)\s#', $string, $matches) ) {
        echo "<b>Matched '{$string}':</b>\n\n";
        print_r($matches);
    }
}

Output:

Matched 'lorem ipsum size large lorem ipsum':
Array
(
    [0] => size large 
    [1] => large
)

Matched 'lorem ipsum size m lorem ipsum':
Array
(
    [0] => size m 
    [1] => m
)

Matched 'lorem ipsum size 39.5 lorem ipsum ':
Array
(
    [0] => size 39.5 
    [1] => 39.5
)

Size is stored in $matches[1].