How to get a second specific word inside a string in PHP

Question

Hey guys so I have a question,

Lets say someone puts "Hi lets have #fun and than more #fun" Now lets say I want to grab the second hashtag including the word connected to it and store it into a variable.

How would I go about getting the second part because using (strpos($a,'#fun') would only return the first one.

Thank you for your time!

David

Edit:

Here's what I did:

$code = "Hi lets have #funfgs and than more #funny";
$pos1 = strpos($code, '#');
$pos2 = strpos($code, '#', $pos1 + strlen('#'));
echo substr($code, $pos2);

@DipeshParmar will this work even if there are other words in between the first and second parameter I want, they will always be different. The main thing I point out is the # — David Biga, Mar 22 '13 at 04:35
@DavidBiga yes, it should still work. It's just using `strpos` on a haystack that has the first occurrence of the needle stripped out. — Nick Pickering, Mar 22 '13 at 04:48

user1190992 · Answer 1 · 2013-03-22T04:45:21.803

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You can use following Regular Expression

$code = "Hi lets have #fun and than more #fun";

$pattern = "$#[^\s]*$i";

preg_match_all($pattern, $code, $matches);

print_r($matches);

edited Mar 22 '13 at 04:45

answered Mar 22 '13 at 04:35

user1190992

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Its pattern matching using regular expressions. Check [this](http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php) – user1190992 Mar 22 '13 at 04:39
I'm getting `Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Offset not contained in string` – David Biga Mar 22 '13 at 04:41
Okay I removed the $'s and its working.....the thing is it gives me every single letter in arrays? – David Biga Mar 22 '13 at 04:43
Check the edit. It might help. You get all the hashtags and you can loop through the array to get what you need. – user1190992 Mar 22 '13 at 04:46
Ya that is not working. – David Biga Mar 22 '13 at 04:47

How to get a second specific word inside a string in PHP

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