Re: scan a text string to pick up certain words

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:07:57 -0400, Alex Shi <chpshi@stonix.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I guess regex can do the trick but I don't know much about regex :(( > Here is what I want: > Say a text string in which there're several words enclosed by "{" > and "}", for example {hellow}. I need to pick up each of the words > like this and print them or do some processing one by one. > Can any one please show me an example how to do this in PHP. > Thanks in advance! > preg_match_all('/{([^}]*)}/', $text, $matches); print_r($matches[1]); -- DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder paperCrane --Justin Patrin--