Parse text between 2 words

Question

For sure this has already been asked by someone else, however I\'ve searched here on SO and found nothing https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=php+parse+between+words

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Answer 1

You can also use two explode statements.

For example, say you want to get "z" in y=mx^z+b. To get z:

$formula="y=mx^z+b";
$z=explode("+",explode("^",$formula)[1])[0];

First I get everything after ^: explode("^",$formula)[1]

Then I get everything before +: explode("+",$previousExplode)[0]