How to get http from string?

Question

I have the following string:

"http://add.co" id="num_1"

How can I get only "http://add.co" from this string?

I tried to use pattern:

^http:\/\/(+s)*

Answer 1

You could use this regex ^"http:\/\/[^"]+(?=") which almost captures your url.

String : "http://add.co" id="num_1"
Matches : "http://add.co

You could append a last " to the match to fix it. Maybe someone can edit my regex to include the last ".

See example here: https://regex101.com/r/oppeaQ/1

Answer 2

There are a couple of ways to achieve what you want:

With preg_match:

$str = '"http://add.co" id="num_1"';
preg_match('/^"(.*?)"/', $str, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

With str_replace and explode:

$str = '"http://add.co" id="num_1"';
$url = str_replace("\"", "", explode(" ", $str)[0]);
echo $url;