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Extract text from string containing brackets in PHP

I have a string with a name and a code like

KT16(Ottershaw)

Now I need to extract text from ()

. I need to extract Ottershaw. How can I do this using php.

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it should be:



preg_match('/\(([^\)]*)\)/', 'KT16(Ottershaw)', $matches);
echo $matches[1];
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Just get the substring between the first open brace and the last closing brace:



$string = "KT16(Ottershaw)";
$strResult = substr($string, stripos($string, "(") +1,strrpos($string, ")") - stripos($string, "(")-1);
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The following RegEx should work:

/\[(.*?)\]/
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This is a sample code to extract all the text between '[' and ']' and store it in 2 separate arrays (i.e. the text inside the parentheses in one array and the text outside the parentheses in another array)

function extract_text($string)
   {
    $text_outside=array();
    $text_inside=array();
    $t="";
    for($i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i++)
    {
        if($string[$i]=='[')
        {
            $text_outside[]=$t;
            $t="";
            $t1="";
            $i++;
            while($string[$i]!=']')
            {
                $t1.=$string[$i];
                $i++;
            }
            $text_inside[] = $t1;

        }
        else {
            if($string[$i]!=']')
            $t.=$string[$i];
            else {
                continue;
            }

        }
    }
    if($t!="")
    $text_outside[]=$t;

    var_dump($text_outside);
    echo "\n\n";
    var_dump($text_inside);
  }

Output: extract_text ("hello, how are you?"); will produce:

array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(18) "hello how are you?"
}

array(0) {
}

extract_text ("hello [http://www.google.com/test.mp3] how are you?"); will produce

array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(6) "hello "
  [1]=>
  string(13) " how are you?"
}


array(1) {
  [0]=>
  string(30) "http://www.google.com/test.mp3"
}
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