Are there any PHP built-in functions that can simplify the process of extracting text between specific characters in a string?

When extracting text between specific characters in a string, you can use the `strstr()` function in PHP to find the first occurrence of a string within another string. You can then use `substr()` to extract the text between the specific characters. 

$string = "This is a [sample] string";
$start = '[';
$end = ']';

$text_between = substr(strstr($string, $start), strlen($start));
$text_between = substr($text_between, 0, strpos($text_between, $end));

echo $text_between; // Output: sample

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PHP built-in functions text extraction string manipulation character parsing

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