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<?php function get_values_between($the_string, $starts_with, $ends_with) { if(strpos ($the_string , $starts_with)===false) return array(); $the_string = substr($the_string,strpos ($the_string , $starts_with)); $temp = array_filter(explode($starts_with, $the_string)); $result_array = array(); $inc = 0; foreach($temp as $a_start_match) { if (strlen($ends_with) <= strlen($a_start_match)) { $a_start_match = substr($a_start_match,0,strpos($a_start_match , $ends_with)); if(substr($a_start_match, -strlen($ends_with)) === $ends_with) { $result_array[$inc]=$a_start_match; $inc++; } } } return $result_array; } $the_string = "some string here string_1ABCDEFGHstring2 some string here string_1IJKLMNOPQRSTstring2 some string here string_1UVWXYZstring2"; $start = "string_1"; $end = "string2"; $result = (get_values_between($the_string,$start,$end)); print_r($result);
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.11, 4.4.0 - 4.4.9, 5.0.0 - 5.0.5, 5.1.0 - 5.1.6, 5.2.0 - 5.2.17, 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.38, 7.0.0 - 7.0.31, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.27, 8.2.0 - 8.2.17, 8.3.0 - 8.3.4
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