Question

For example I have the text.

$text = 'Hello dear friend, my name is Jacky.
I am 25 years old and @I am earning* $500 per month, but @I am going* to earn more';

I want to find all parts in text that starts from symbol “@” and ends with symbol “*”.
In this example I want to have such variables:

$found[1] = 'I am earning';
$found[2] = 'I am going';

Who can help me with this? I use strstr(), but it is failing when there is more than one found part.

Answer 1

preg_match_all('/@(.*?)\*/', $str, $matches);
$matches = $matches[1];

Or:

preg_match_all('/(?<=@).*?(?=\*)/', $text, $matches);
$matches = $matches[0];

Both result in $matches equalling:

Array
(
    [0] => I am earning
    [1] => I am going
)