You can extract myid without regex
$url = "index.php?foo=Y&myid=123456&bar=2";$urlParts = parse_url($url);$status
= parse_str($urlParts['query'], $output);if (false !== $status) { print_r
($output);}
CheersMohammed
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:05:53 +1200
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: [phpug] learning regex preg_match
> To: [email protected]
>
> i want to extract a match from a string. I have these working:
>
> /myid=[0-9][0-9][0-9]/
>
> on "index.php?foo=Y&myid=123456&bar=2"
> with the result
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [0] => myid=123
> )
>
> )
>
> or
>
> /myid=[0-9]{7}|[0-9]{6}|[0-9]{5}|[0-9]{4}/
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [0] => 123456
> )
>
> )
>
> "myid" is between 4 and seven digits and i need to get the full number hence
> why i check for 7 first.
>
> /myid=[0-9]{7}|myid=[0-9]{6}|myid=[0-9]{5}|myid=[0-9]{4}/
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [0] => myid=123456
> )
>
> )
>
> Just tried this... it works, it is what i want, but it just seems way OTT. Is
> there a simpler way?
>
> Much cleaner would be a way of extracting just the digits after ensuring it
> followed "myid=" but i can do that on a second call if needed.
>
> TIA
>
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> Michael
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