RegEx - numbers between . and /

Question

I have a bunch of URL's like this. I need to get the thread id which is located between "." and "/" without getting the post number on the end of the URL.

https://www.internetforum.com/thread-title-here.111111/#post-22222222

I'd like regex to get 111111 in this example.

Can anyone help? I can't do this for the life of, I've got no issues with getting digits between two strings but I'm struggling as it's symbols here and not characters...

Thanks in advance.

You can use a backslash to escape the symbols, if that is of any help. — Daniel, Mar 24 '17 at 12:02
See a sample code [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2047337/php-return-string-between-two-characters). Put your "symbols" there with `\d+` to match digits and you are done. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Mar 24 '17 at 12:06
Note you can do it without escaping anything - `preg_match('~(?<=[.])[0-9]+(?=/)~', $s, $match)` — Wiktor Stribiżew, Mar 24 '17 at 12:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '17 at 12:07

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You can use the following code:

<?php

    $url = "https://www.internetforum.com/thread-title-here.111111/#post-22222222";

    preg_match("/\.([0-9]+)\//", $url, $match);

    if($match){
        echo $match[1]; // prints out 111111
    }


    ?>

answered Mar 24 '17 at 12:07

Željko Krnjić

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '17 at 12:07

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Could do something like so,

$str = 'https://www.internetforum.com/thread-title-here.111111/#post-22222222';
preg_match('/internetforum.com\/.*?\.(.*?)\/.*/',$str,$matches);
echo $matches[1];

answered Mar 24 '17 at 12:07

zrinath

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 24 '17 at 12:07

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Try without regex for example:

$s = 'https://www.internetforum.com/thread-title-here.111111/#post-22222222';
echo $o = explode("/",end(explode(".", $s)))[0];

answered Mar 24 '17 at 12:07

RegEx - numbers between . and /

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