Question

I have a string, I need to search this string and be able to assign the address details to a variable:

how it looks in the string:

infoone:"infoone"infotwo:"infotwo"address:"123 fake street pretend land"infothree:"infothree"infofour:"infofour" address:"345 fake street pretend land"infofive: "infofive"infosix: "infosix"

How would I use regular expressions to search through this string to lift only the data in the inverted commas after the word address,?

Note: I cannot target the phrase “123 fake street pretend land” as this is just an example used of what might be in the inverted commas.

Answer 1

Use this regex

$str='infoone:"infoone"infotwo:"infotwo"address:"123 fake street pretend land"infothree:"infothree"infofour:"infofour" address:"345 fake street pretend land"infofive: "infofive"infosix: "infosix"';

preg_match_all("/address:\"(.*)\"/siU",$str,$out);
print_r($out[1]);