note 33664 deleted from function.preg-split by sniper

Note Submitter: howard @t freetimers dot commodore64 ---- regarding START END delimiters, esp. re: PHP error "No ending delimiter '^' found" if I want to split a string into an array, based on a line starting with "Date:" <? $allOrders = "Date: 26/04/2003 product: some stuff comments: blah blah Date: 28/04/2003 product: some other stuff comments: blah blah blah Date: 13/04/2003 product: a lot of stuff comments: purchase Date: 24/03/2003"; $orders = preg_split('^(Date:)',$allOrders); //won't work, but $orders = preg_split('^(Date:)^',$allOrders); //will work. ?> as you can see by the string, I can't just split it on lines containing "Date:" hope that helps! please reply by email if this is hopelessly wrong; it works for me.