Extract a substring between two characters in a string PHP

php, substr

Solution

use this code

$input = "[modid=256]";
preg_match('~=(.*?)]~', $input, $output);
echo $output[1]; // 256

working example http://codepad.viper-7.com/0eD2ns

Problem

Is there a PHP function that can extract a phrase between 2 different characters in a string? Something like `substr()`; Example: ``` $String = "[modid=256]"; $First = "="; $Second = "]"; $id = substr($string, $First, $Second); ``` Thus `$id` would be `256` Any help would be appreciated :)

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