Question

I’m searching a string for a certain pattern.

$string = "Monday: 08.00-18.00";
$pattern = "xx.xx-xx.xx";

The “x” could be “0”, “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, “5”, “6”, “7”, “8” or “9”.
The “-” must be a “-“.
The “.” could be “.” or “:”.

Is there a way to this this?

Answer 1

You want something like

$string = "Monday: 08.00-18.00";
$pattern = "/[0-9]{2}[:|\.][0-9]{2}[-][0-9]{2}[:|\.][0-9]{2}/";
if(preg_match($pattern,$string,$matches))
{
    // has the pattern, do something
    //$matches has all the matches from preg_match
    echo $matches[0]; // prints the matched pattern
}