how to get string between two special reacter in php

first you shoul create a function declear in below function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){ $string = ' ' . $string; $ini = strpos($string, $start); if ($ini == 0) return ''; $ini += strlen($start); $len = strpos($string, $end, $ini) - $ini; return substr($string, $ini, $len); } after decration this function you can easy get string from . example is given below. $fullstring = this is the q and the (a) is first choise (b) is the second choise; $parsed = get_string_between($fullstring, '(a)', '(b)'); echo $parsed; out put is show "is first choise"