phpstringtext-extractionhashtag

Get single word after each hash symbol in a string

How to explode a string, for instance

#heavy / machine gun #test

in order to only get heavy and test?

I tried with explode but so far I only got heavy / machine gun and test.

Solution

  • Alternative to explode:

    $str = "#heavy / machine gun #test";
preg_match_all('/#([^\s]+)/', $str, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]);

    This will basically find all hashtags in a given string.