Regular Expression Help!

[KMxRetro]

Hi guys and gals - looking for a little help here if possible...

I have the following string stored in a database field:-

<img src="/images/foldername/image.gif" class="absmiddle" alt="Image">

Now, I have pulled that out of the database successfully, but I need to find a way of pulling just the image name (or src="" substring) out of the string. I assume some sort of regular expression would be needed here, but I just can't get my head around it.

Also, I need to be able to replace the whole string (from "<img" to ">") with something else for display purposes. Don't ask! Is there an easy regular expression that will allow me to do this?

Thanks in advance all, Regular Expressions are really confusing me.

[Chris82]

The first:

<pre>
<?php

$email = '<img src="/images/foldername/image.gif" class="absmiddle" alt="Image">';

preg_match('#src="(.+?)"#is', $email, $match);

print_r($match);

?>
</pre>

The second (only works if there is just the image markup and nothing else)

<?php

$email = '<img src="/images/foldername/image.gif" class="absmiddle" alt="Image">';

echo preg_replace('#<[^>]*>#s', 'something else', $email);
?>

[samsm]

You could do this with substr.

$string = substr($string, 4, -1); 

See how that works?