PHP Regular Expression Exercises: Extract text (within parenthesis) from a string
PHP regular expression: Exercise-6 with Solution
Write a PHP script to extract text (within parenthesis) from a string.
Sample strings : 'The quick brown [fox].'
Pictorial Presentation:

Sample Solution:
PHP Code:
<?php
$my_text = 'The quick brown [fox].';
preg_match('#\[(.*?)\]#', $my_text, $match);
print $match[1]."\n";
?>
Sample Output:
fox
Flowchart :

PHP Code Editor:
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