Search word with regular expression PHP

Question

I have string /ro/weather-kyiv-4944/ .Need get ro in this string.

I used preg_match php

preg_match('\/(ro)\/', $url, $matches);

result null. Help me pls guys.

Upd: need ro write in variable

Answer 1

I think you are missing your delimiter characters.

Using # or $ as delimiters is useful because you won't have to escape your / slashes.

Try the following:

preg_match('#/(?<language>.*?)/#', '/ro/weather-kyiv-4944/', $matches);

print_r($matches);