Restore everything before and after a character In PHP

[hirephpexpert]

Hi,

 

I need some help in selecting only a part of a string. Below is the string:

 

$str = "state_West_Bracknell_4057";

 

I would like to meet only West Bracknell from the above.

 

$state1 = explode("_", $str);

echo $state1[1];

 

But this will only return West. I know I can concat and get both BUT sometimes the state's name is only:

 

$str = "state_Bracknell_4057";

 

So if I concat it will give Bracknell_4057

 

So, is there a way to remove everything before the first "_" and the last "_"?

 

 

Thanks

[Gitex]

use substr() in php

[hirephpexpert]

Thanks Gitex for the advise but its tried it but couldn't get proper result

any other suggestion plz...

[grtoftis]

use substr() in php

 

thanks for your advice.cool

[EhsanCh]

$str = substr($str,strpos($str,"_")+1,strrpos($str,"_")-strpos($str,"_")-1 );