Question

I could use some help writing a regular expression for this dictionary string (I don’t use them all that often).

This is an example of the string dictionary:

O:8:"stdClass":5:{s:4:"sent";i:0;s:6:"graded";i:0;s:5:"score";i:0;s:6:"answer";s:14:"<p>Johnson</p>";s:8:"response";s:0:"";}

I want to extract Johnson from the string dictionary.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

This is a PHP serialized object. Don’t use a regular expression. unserialize() the data and display the answer property accordingly.

unserialize($data);
echo $data->answer;