I have the following string:
feature name="osp"
I need to extract part of the strings out and put them into a new string. The word feature can change and the word inside quotes can change so I need to be able to capture any instance possible. The name=" " part is always the same. The result I need is:
feature osp
I need to filter out the name= and quotes from the string.
I've used this ^\w*\s to get the first feature part but can't figure out how to extract osp from the string using a regex. I've been looking here RegEx: Grabbing values between quotation marks but can't get a regex that combines both to get the result I need. I'm working in PHP so using preg-match at the moment. Can anyone help with this?
I'd go with
(\w+)\s+name\s*=\s*"([^"]*)
It's a little bit slower, but it allows for arbitrary number of spaces and it captures the first word correctly, even with Alexandru's test.
Regards
Try something like that:
preg_match('/(.+)name="(.+?)"/', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1] . $matches[2];
An improved version of @vuryss
preg_match('/(.*?)name="(.*?)"/ims', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1] . $matches[2];