regex question

Hey I need need to extract numerical value between \" and \"


So string is like
$a= '\"123\"';


thanks.

Code:

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<?php
$a= '\"123\"';
$pattern = '/[0-9]+/';
preg_match($pattern, $a, $matches);
print_r($matches);
?>

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Thanks.

What if i want to get numerical value between # and # or between [ and ]?


thanks for help by the way....

Quote:

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Originally Posted by SambaNeko

Code:

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<?php
$a= '\"123\"';
$pattern = '/[0-9]+/';
preg_match($pattern, $a, $matches);
print_r($matches);
?>

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While that would work, you are better off looking for the entire string and then pulling the numbers out as a subgroup using brackets.

/\\"([0-9]+)\\\"/

$matches[1] would contain the number.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by visualAd

While that would work, you are better off looking for the entire string and then pulling the numbers out as a subgroup using brackets.

/\\"([0-9]+)\\\"/

$matches[1] would contain the number.

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that works better...thanks man.Will report how it goes in final product...