Hi folks, I have just finished creating my first CakePHP component and I wanted to share it with the community. After I finish writing this article, I will be submitting it to CakePHP for inclusion.
The component is called StringExtractComponent. As you may guess, it extracts content from a piece of content. I have created this component to mimic the STREXTRACT function in Microsoft Visual FoxPro. I have come to fall in love with this function because it makes retrieving data from a string with a start and end delimiter. I’ve also created two other examples with SQL substring between two characters SQL substring between two characters as well as a String Extract Extension Method with C#.
To help you understand how it is used, I read the contents of one of my articles into a string. I then proceed to extract a specific section that is contained within the code syntaxes that exist in the article and it is important to truncate a string.
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