Parse text between 2 words

Question

For sure this has already been asked by someone else, however I\'ve searched here on SO and found nothing https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=php+parse+between+words

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Answer 1

I'm not much familiar with PHP, but it seems to me that you can use something like:

if (preg_match("/(?<=First).*?(?=Second)/s", $haystack, $result))
    print_r($result[0]);

(?<=First) looks behind for First but doesn't consume it,

.*? Captures everything in between First and Second,

(?=Second) looks ahead for Second but doesn't consume it,

The s at the end is to make the dot . match newlines if any.

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To get all the text between those delimiters, you use preg_match_all and you can use a loop to get each element:

if (preg_match_all("/(?<=First)(.*?)(?=Second)/s", $haystack, $result))
    for ($i = 1; count($result) > $i; $i++) {
        print_r($result[$i]);
    }