PHP：匹配两个字符串之间的字符串

Question

i have a problem with preg_match , i cant figure it out.

let the code say it :

function::wp_statistics_useronline::end
function::wp_statistics_visitor|today::end
function::wp_statistics_visitor|yesterday::end
function::wp_statistics_visitor|week::end
function::wp_statistics_visitor|month::end
function::wp_statistics_visitor|total::end

these are some string that run functions inside php;

when i use just one function::*::end it works just fine. but when it contain more than one function , not working the way i want it parse the match like :

function::wp_statistics_useronline::end function::wp_statistics_visitor|today::end AND ....::end

so basically i need Regex code that separate them and give me an array for each function::*::end

Answer 1

I assume you were actually using function::(.*)::end since function::*::end is never going to work (it can only match strings like "function::::::end").

The reason your regex failed with multiple matches on the same line is that the quantifier * is greedy by default, matching as many characters as possible. You need to make it lazy: function::(.*?)::end