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preg_replace may suit your needs. &nbsp;You won't need to escape the grouping parentheses.<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-37762300-1">$mystring = &quot;something name='pillmill' etc&quot;;
$newstring = preg_replace(&quot;/.*name='([^']*).*/&quot;, &quot;$1&quot;, $mystring);</code></pre>
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preg_replace may suit your needs.  You won't need to escape the grouping parentheses.


$mystring = "something name='pillmill' etc";
$newstring = preg_replace("/.*name='([^']*).*/", "$1", $mystring);

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How do I convert an sed expression into a php preg_match search?<br />
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The sed search is: &nbsp; sed -n &quot;s/.*name='$[^']*$.*/\1/<wbr />p&quot;<br />
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I need to do the equivalent with php using preg_match or a similar function.
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How do I convert an sed expression into a php preg_match search?

The sed search is:   sed -n "s/.*name='$[^']*$.*/\1/p"

I need to do the equivalent with php using preg_match or a similar function.

convert sed to preg_match?

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