I have strings containing this (where the number are integers representing the user id)
@[calbert](3)
@[username](684684)
I figured I need the following to get the username and user id
\((.*?)\)
and
\[(.*?)])
But is there a way to get both at once?
And PHP returns, is it possible to only get the result without the parenthesis (and brackets in the username case)
Array
(
[0] => (3)
[1] => 3
)
Through positive lookbehind and lookahead assertion.
(?<=\[)[^\]]*(?=])|(?<=\()\d+(?=\))
(?<=\[) Asserts that the match must be preceeded by [ character,
[^\]]* matches any char but not of ] zero or more times.
(?=]) Asserts that the match must be followed by ] symbol.
| Called logical OR operator used to combine two regexes.
\[([^\]]*)\]|\(([^)]*)\)
Try this.See demo.You need to use | or operator.This provides regex engine to provide alternating capturing group if the first one fails.
https://regex101.com/r/tX2bH4/31
$re = "/\\[([^\\]]*)\\]|\\(([^)]*)\\)/im";
$str = " @[calbert](3)
@[username](684684)";
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches);
Or you can use ur own regex. \((.*?)\)|\[(.*?)\])