note 84413 deleted from function.preg-split by danbrown

Note Submitter: harrismw at ids dot org dot au ---- If you have some text of the form: $part1.'some text'.$part2.'some other text'.$part3 And you want to split out the text, and discard the $partX parts, e.g. <html><head><title> My title! </title></head><body> My body! </body></html> and just keep "My title!" and "My body!", then this code will be of use. <?php //defining the delimiters $part1= '<html><head><title>'; $part2='</title></head><body>'; $part3='</body></html>'; //and the text, for my project I'm getting this information from a text file. $tempcon = <<<eoa <html><head><title> My title! </title></head><body> My body! </body></html> eoa ; // defining the patterns. $pattern1='~'.$part1.'~'; $pattern2='~'.$part2.'~'; $pattern3='~'.$part3.'~'; //Finding the title $arrayf = preg_split ($pattern1, $tempcon); //2 sort out the title $title = $arrayf[1]; $arrayf = preg_split ($pattern2, $title); //2 $title = $arrayf[0]; //Finding the body text. $arrayf = preg_split ($pattern2, $tempcon); //2 sort out the content $content = $arrayf[1]; $arrayf = preg_split ($pattern3, $content); //2 $content = $arrayf[0]; //And display. echo $title.'<br>'.$content; ?> I looked long and hard, and I just couldn't find an example of doing this, so here you go. Of course, I would love to be able to use a single call to preg_split, but I haven't worked that out.