Regex Help with manipulating string

Question

i am seriously struggling to get my head around regex.

I have a sring with "iPhone: 52.973053,-0.021447"

i want to extract the two numbers after the colon into two seperate strings so delimited by the comma.

Can anyone help me? Cheers

Answer 1

Try:

preg_match_all('/\w+:\s*(-?\d+\.\d+),(-?\d+\.\d+)/',
    "iPhone: 52.973053,-0.021447 FOO: -1.0,-1.0",
    $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
print_r($matches);

which produces:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => iPhone: 52.973053,-0.021447
            [1] => 52.973053
            [2] => -0.021447
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => FOO: -1.0,-1.0
            [1] => -1.0
            [2] => -1.0
        )

)

Or just:

preg_match('/\w+:\s*(-?\d+\.\d+),(-?\d+\.\d+)/',
    "iPhone: 52.973053,-0.021447",
    $match);
print_r($match);

if the string only contains one coordinate.

A small explanation:

\w+      # match a word character: [a-zA-Z_0-9] and repeat it one or more times
:        # match the character ':'
\s*      # match a whitespace character: [ \t\n\x0B\f\r] and repeat it zero or more times
(        # start capture group 1
  -?     #   match the character '-' and match it once or none at all
  \d+    #   match a digit: [0-9] and repeat it one or more times
  \.     #   match the character '.'
  \d+    #   match a digit: [0-9] and repeat it one or more times
)        # end capture group 1
,        # match the character ','
(        # start capture group 2
  -?     #   match the character '-' and match it once or none at all
  \d+    #   match a digit: [0-9] and repeat it one or more times
  \.     #   match the character '.'
  \d+    #   match a digit: [0-9] and repeat it one or more times
)        # end capture group 2