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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