RE: [PHP] a regular expression problem - split text

> I have a text like this: > > $text=" <!-- 1 --> this is January <!-- 2 --> this is February <!-- 3 --> > this is March <!-- 4 --> this is April "; > > OK.. i want to show e.g. "this is January" in my var $sub_text. > > How can i doing this using a regular expressions? This seems to work. preg_match_all("/<!-- [0-9]+ -->([a-z ]+)/i",$text,$matches); $matches will be an array with the values your after in it. Do a print_r() on it to see how it's structured. Or, if you're text is always like that, you could just match what's between the > and < characters, too. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/