whoops! a case of premature ejaculation, there. as i was saying....
learn :-) they're tremendously useful. i recommend o'reilly's 'mastering regular expressions', which i the book i learned off. i became a convert to regexes when i had to replace 8500 dead links in a morning!
in the interim, i can't remember offhand if there's a spliti(), and php.net seems to be down atm, but you can use:
$ar=preg_split("/<meta/i",$string)
(the /i makes it case insensitive)
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rad