SOLVED: subsequent characters

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In a text of a database field i have a unique string and i want remove all characters that follow to the end of the text. But all that follow to the end is dynamicly created and different in each entry.

Example:

Code:

 my needed text ends here<br />


<br />


unique string<br />


<a href="file-a.php>aaa</a><br />


<a href="file-t.php>ttt</a><br />


<a href="file-x.php>xxx</a>

Is it possible to catch all characters after my 'unique string' as one string? I have it tried with preg_match but it seems i can only catch a string between some characters but not until to the last character. Exists here another way?

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:13 am

What php version are you running? If you are using 5.3+ stristr() might work for you.

Code:




stristr($text, $string, true);

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:34 pm

it is a little unclear to me of what exactly you want.

From what i understand:

my needed text ends here 
 
unique string 
<a href="file-a.php>aaa</a> 
<a href="file-t.php>ttt</a> 
<a href="file-x.php>xxx</a>

Do you need all the text in red?
ifso , are you able to put that particular text inside an html element?
For example a div:

my needed text ends here<div class="required_after" style="display: none;"> 
 
unique string 
<a href="file-a.php>aaa</a> 
<a href="file-t.php>ttt</a> 
<a href="file-x.php>xxx</a></div>

If you only need it to show you could use jquery:

Code:




$( "div.required_after" ).show();

If the jquery methode is not suitable and wants pure php you forced to use a delimiter let's say a curly bracket
you need to use explode:
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if you want the blue... yeah well that is selfexplaining.

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:40 am

nuken, thx but i found a working solution in php with a mix of preg_match, str_replace and substr.

wHiTeHaT, i can't add a div around these codelines because its a article database with more than 1000 entries and i would have to add it in all entries - that is simply not possible. It was impotant on the server-side with php and not on the client-side with jquery.