RE: [PHP] extracting text

> say i have a line of text like: [blah], [rah] PH33r Us! [moo] > > how can I extract all the text in the brackets and set it as a var, im > totally stuck, my idea was to use strstr() but that wouldnt work as all > the > tags were not at the end :( Assuming you want to replace [foo] with the value in $foo, you can use something like this: $str = "this [foo] is a [test] okay?"; $foo = "crap_foo"; $test = "crap_test"; $nstr = preg_replace("/\[([a-z]+)\]/ie",'\$$1',$str); echo $str . "<br>---<br>" . $nstr; No error checking, so if $foo doesn't exist, you'll get a warning and empty string inserted. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/