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Asked: 2026-05-27T06:18:59+00:00

I’ve got the following excerpt from a logfile, and have to grab everything between

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I’ve got the following excerpt from a logfile, and have to grab everything between ‘NC: ‘ and ‘VL #’ or ‘Total violation level so far #.’ Any thoughts on how I might be able to grab that string given that the length is unknown and there’s no easy delimiter?

11.11.27 14:50:41 [WARNING] NC: elvefromhell failed fight.noswing: Didn’t swing arm. VL 3

11.11.27 14:50:54 [INFO] NC: Jackmac19 failed fight.direction: tried to attack out of sight entity. Total violation level so far 5.

11.11.27 14:51:02 [WARNING] NC: Bugs6968 failed chat.spam: Last sent message "t". VL 1

11.11.27 14:51:26 [WARNING] NC: Convinced failed chat.spam: Last sent message "hi pherce". VL 1

11.11.27 14:51:48 [WARNING] NC: UmbraSprite failed blockbreak.noswing: Didn’t swing arm. VL 2

11.11.27 14:51:59 [INFO] NC: AwayDood failed moving.running.vertical. VL 2

11.11.27 14:52:17 [INFO] NC: AwayDood failed moving.running.vertical. VL 11

11.11.27 14:52:35 [INFO] NC: AwayDood failed moving.running.vertical. VL 11

11.11.27 14:53:06 [WARNING] NC: AwayDood failed blockbreak.noswing: Didn’t swing arm. VL 4

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using a regular expression:

    $text = '11.11.27 14:50:54 [INFO] NC: Jackmac19 failed fight.direction: tried to attack out of sight entity. Total violation level so far 5.';

preg_match('/NC: (.*)?\s(VL|Total violation level so far)/', $text, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

    This would operate on one line at a time. It can be made to work on a larger piece of log, but it seems sounder to process the log a line at a time.

    See it in action.

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