eregi function?

Not sure how to do this but I have a call to a database which pulls the contents of a table into an array and I need a eregi string which will sift through the contents and put a line break (i.e. \n or <br>) after each ";", "}" or "{". here is what I have so far... while($b = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) { list($id,$date,$user,$level,$global,$vlan01,$hosts01,$vlan02,$hosts02,$vlan03,$hosts03,$vlan04,$hosts04,$vlan05,$hosts05,$vlan06,$hosts06,$vlan07,$hosts07,$vlan08,$hosts08,$vlan09,$hosts09,$vlan10,$hosts10) = $b; } if(!eregi("^[{]+[}]+[;]$", $id,$date,$user,$level,$global,$vlan01,$hosts01,$vlan02,$hosts02,$vlan03,$hosts03,$vlan04,$hosts04,$vlan05,$hosts05,$vlan06,$hosts06,$vlan07,$hosts07,$vlan08,$hosts08,$vlan09,$hosts09,$vlan10,$hosts10)) // insert line break here } Any help with this would be appreciated Jas