Question

I have the following string:

!fun(10,20)

I am trying to split it into the following component parts:

!, fun, 10, 20

The ! is always the first character. The fun is always the next 3 chars after the !, the 10 will always follow an open bracket (, the 20 will be always follow the first comma , before the close bracket.

I’ve tried using PHP functions but have been banging my head against a wall. I am presuming I can do this using a regular expression or similar.

Answer 1

You can use preg_match

preg_match('/^!(\w{3})\((\d+),(\d+)\)$/', $string, $matches);

Then $matches will contain:

matches: Array
(
    [0] => !fun(10,20)
    [1] => fun
    [2] => 10
    [3] => 20
)

I’m no expert with regex, feel free to comment if it can be reduced.