RE: [PHP] explode () question

(after more and more discussion, this will be my first "non-top" post) > > >$rint1= rtrim($rintydata); > > echo $rint1; > > $rint2= explode(":", $rint1); > > > > The data starts like this (from and email, there are many) ; > > > > Time: November 9th 2003, 10:37AM - PST IP Address: xx.xx.xxx.xxx > > Browser Type: Opera/7.20 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en] > > Referer: > > > > The problem is that when I do this ; > > > > > >while( $res=each($rint2) ) > >{ > > echo "<br>$res[1]<br>"; > >}; > > > >the colon in Time messes things up. > > > > here is the result ; > > > >Time > >November 8th 2003, 07 > >15PM - PST IP Address > >xx.xx.xx.xxx Browser Type > >Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Referer > > > >when what I really want is ; > > > >Time - November 8th 2003, 07:15PM - PST IP - Address xx.xx.xx.xxx > >Browser Type - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) > >Referer - I'd try something like: 1 <?php 2 $String = 'From: Wouter van Vliet <wouter@springt.nl>'; 3 preg_match('/^\s*([^:]*)\s*:\s*(.*)$/', $String, $Matches); 4 5 print_r($Matches); 6 7 ?> ==> OUTPUT: Array ( [0] => From: Wouter van Vliet <wouter@springt.nl> [1] => From [2] => Wouter van Vliet <wouter@springt.nl> ) From here you'd be able to manipulate the things you want in any format you'd want it to have. Or use preg_match_all() if you have all mail headers in one variable.