Regular expression for extracting a number

Question

I would like to be able to extract a number from within a string formatted as follows:

\"<[1085674730]> hello foo1, how are you doing?\"

I\'m a novice wit

Answer 1

$subject = "<[1085674730]> hello foo1, how are you doing?";
preg_match('/<\[(\d+)\]>/', $subject, $matches);

$matches[1] will contain the number you are looking for.