Question

Is there a way to explode a string with different separators/delimiters, for example this string

code code code (1) code code@ (2) code code code (3) code (4)

The 2 is the number I want to get as the result, is there an easy way to do this with php?

Answer 1

If you’re trying to get the data inside of the parentheses, the following code will match that for you:

preg_match_all('/\((\d+)\)/', $str, $matches);

var_dump($matches[1][1]); // string(1) "2"

If you’re trying to split the string using the delimiter of (<some-number>), the code below will work for you:

$arr = preg_split('/\(\d+\)/', $str);

var_dump($arr[2]); // string(16) " code code code "