Re: ereg_replace() help

Hi David! On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, David Newcomb wrote: > The string will follow the patten of > something<whitespace(s)>something<whitespace(s)>something<whitespace(s)>labl > e > <whitespaces><thingIwant><rest of varible> > eg: > $text= "one two label four > otherstuff"; > or > $text = "one two label > four > otherstuff"; > or > $text = "one two label<tab>four otherstuff"; > > and the <thingIwant> in the example is "four" > > This is what I have so far: > > $name=ereg_replace(".*label[ \n]([A-Za-z0-9]+).*","\\1",$text); > If you are sure `four' will always be in the fourth position, and the separator is only in `<blank>,\t,\n' you can use something like: $text = preg_split ('/\s+/', $text, 5); $name = $text [3]; -- teodor