extract strings from one long strings

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shaymiller

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I scrape a website with the title "Jhooti Episode 17 Ary Digital Drama - 16th May 2020 - Video Watch Online - Part 1"

Drama name is Jhooti
Episode is 17
Part 1

how can I extract this using php?

I have tried this

Code:

I could not post code here 

I used 
 substr and strpos functions

 

PureHustle

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• #2

Regex probably

 

iBrazilian

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• #3

Since it's just a scraper, either post the code you already have, or go to stackoverflow

 

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shaymiller

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iBrazilian said:

Since it's just a scraper, either post the code you already have, or go to stackoverflow

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I could not post code here.

scaper has nothing to do with this

Just take that simple string I posted & let me know how to extract it using php

PureHustle said:

Regex probably

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little bit more details

 

iBrazilian

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shaymiller said:

I could not post code here.

scaper has nothing to do with this

Just take that simple string I posted & let me know how to extract it using php




little bit more details

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Will the title format change?

 

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shaymiller

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• #6

iBrazilian said:

Will the title format change?

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no

 

krychaj5

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• #7

Split this string by „episode” and „-„ then get Your desired strings from returned arrays

 

hakann

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• #8

You can split string by empty space and
than use first two elements from array
along with last two elements of array.

 

greydingo

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Splitting the strings or regex.

I use this site to write and test my regex as I'm writing it. Makes it much easier.

https://regex101.com/

 

JamesBondBro

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PHP:

$str = "Jhooti Episode 17 Ary Digital Drama - 16th May 2020 - Video Watch Online - Part 1";

if ( preg_match("/(.+)\s+Episode\s+(\d+).+Part\s+(\d+)/i", $str, $result ) ) {
    echo "name:" . $result[1] . "\n";
    echo "episode:" . $result[2] . "\n";  
    echo "part:" . $result[3] . "\n";  
}

 

greydingo

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Nice. JamesBondBro was nice enough to actually write the regex for you

 

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shaymiller

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JamesBondBro said:

$str = "Jhooti Episode 17 Ary Digital Drama - 16th May 2020 - Video Watch Online - Part 1"; if ( preg_match("/(.+)\s+Episode\s+(\d+).+Part\s+(\d+)/i", $str, $result ) ) { echo "name:" . $result[1] . "\n"; echo "episode:" . $result[2] . "\n"; echo "part:" . $result[3] . "\n"; }

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Yes, it worked.

How can I extract date too?