Scan string for first (

[PumpkinHead]

Hi,

Can someone tell me the best/fastest way to extract data from a given position.

I have a string...

$string = "My Name (PumpkinHead)";

I need to pull out...

$extract = "(PumpkinHead)";

So really, I need to scan for the first ( then subtract one character position and extract everything after.

Hope that makes sense! Thanks in advance.

[zCat]

Regular expressions are what you need - they work like this:

$string = "My Name (PumpkinHead)";
$string =~ /(\(.+?\))/;
$extract = $1;

[PumpkinHead]

Sorry I thought I posted this in the php section. Has it been moved?

[PumpkinHead]

Nevermind, I found it!

strpos