RE: [PHP] reg ex help

[snip] New to php so please bear with me. I'm trying to parse through a field that has some information in it, the information is stored with other information and is delimited in a certain pattern so I figure using reg ex I can get the information I want out of the text. So here is an example. Silver Small Corp;;;;;X^%%%%%\n#####\n Gold Medium Corp;;;;;RE^%%%%%\n#####\n Platinum Large Corp;;;;;YRE^%%%%%\n#####\n Reall all I need is the information on Silver Small Corp, etc and the X all the rest is gibberish. Is Reg Ex the best way to do this or would it be some other way. [/snip] You couuld use explode $myField = "Silver Small Corp;;;;;X^%%%%%\n#####\n"; $foo = explode(";;;;;", $myField); echo $foo[0];