Re: scan a text string to pick up certain words

It works the way as supposed :) Thanks! > 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--