Question

I have a string stored in variable say

$input = 999 success: id:10.123/AVC13231 | ark:/asf4523/2425fsaf

I want to select only a part of a string “10.123/AVC13231”

say i want to achieve this:

$output = 10.123/XXXXXXXX ; 

and no other part $input should be selected even the id: part

The value 10.123 is constant and the value AVC13231 changes dynamically.

How can i achieve the above?

Answer 1

Here’s a solution.

$input = "999 success: id:10.123/AVC13231 | ark:/asf4523/2425fsaf";
$pos1 = strpos($input, 'id:')+3;    // Remove 'id:'
$pos2 = strpos($input, '|')-1;      // Remove space before pipe
$output = substr($input, $pos1, ($pos2 - $pos1));