Re: Regex guru needed

Tobias Schlitt wrote:

Hi bertrand Gugger! On 11/13/2004 10:57 AM you wrote:

I think you must catch the whole between the parenthesis, and then split it with spaces as:

That's especially what I wanted to avoid, since having all in 1 regex is much faster than spliting every result again.

Ok, then one solution can work if you limit the number of subpatterns as: $string = "(aaa bbb ccc ddd)"; $regex = '/\('.str_repeat ('(?:([a-z]+)\s*)?', 20).'\)/'; preg_match($regex, $string, $matches); var_dump($matches); Here you catch it in once, but limited to 20. I don't know if you can admit such a limit. Bye bertrand Gugger (toggg)