Finding the nth match : preg_match_all « String « PHP

1. PHP
2. String
3. preg_match_all

Finding the nth match

 
<?php
$todo = "1. a 2. B 3. C";

preg_match_all("/\d\. ([^\d]+)/", $todo, $matches);

print "The second item on the todo list is: ";

print $matches[1][1];

print "The entire todo list is: ";
foreach($matches[1] as $match) {
    print "$match\n";
}
?>
  
  

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