Question

I have a string that always follows the format:

This Fee Name :  *  Fee Id  * Fee Amount  $* is required for this activity

Example:

This Fee Name :  STATE TITLE FEE  Fee Id  2 Fee Amount  $5.50 is required for this activity

What I would like to do using PHP is pass the string and get the results

• STATE TITLE FEE
• 2
• 5.50

I’m pretty sure preg_match_all is what I want, but cannot figure out how to use the regex properly.

Answer 1

Try the following:

$a = 'This Fee Name :  STATE TITLE FEE  Fee Id  2 Fee Amount  $5.50 is required for this activity';
$regex = '/This Fee Name :  (.+)  Fee Id  (.+) Fee Amount  \$(.+) is required for this activity/';
$matches = array();
preg_match($regex, $a, $matches);
var_dump($matches);

Output:

array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(91) "This Fee Name :  STATE TITLE FEE  Fee Id  2 Fee Amount  $5.50 is required for this activity"
  [1]=>
  string(15) "STATE TITLE FEE"
  [2]=>
  string(1) "2"
  [3]=>
  string(4) "5.50"
}