I really don't understand regex at all, and it hurts my head.
I've a bit of text which looks like this
blah blah blah (here is the bit I'd like to extract)
...and I don't really understand how to extract this using PHP's preg_split, or equivalent, command.
How do I do this? And where's a good place to understand how preg works?
Something like this should do the trick, to match what is between
(
and)
:And you'd get :
Basically, the pattern I used searches for :
(
; but as ( has a special meaning, it has to be escaped :\(
[^\)]+
([^\)]+)
$matches[1]
)
; here, too, it's a special character that has to be escaped :\)