Re: Special regular expression

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT wrote: > $unsplitted = "<html><body><? phpstuff > ?></body></html>"; > > $splitted = desired_function("<?", "?>", $unsplitted"); > > This then should result in: > > $splitted[0] = "<html><body>" > $splitted[1] = "<? phpstuff ?>" > $splitted[2] = "</body></html>" I suggest trying preg_match("/(.*)(<\?.*\?>)(.*)/",$unsplitted,$splitted); or would it be preg_match("/(.*)(\<\?.*\?\>)(.*)/",$unsplitted,$splitted); Either one might be close, but note it will produce: $splitted[1] = "<html><body>" $splitted[2] = "<? phpstuff ?>" $splitted[3] = "</body></html>" http://www.artwells.com/ That which indicates nothing introduces everything.