Find occurances of {anything}

[Anon]

Hello I'm having a problem - I need to be able to get all of the occurances of {x} in a variable, for example:

$string="some text {firstitem} more text {anotheritem} more and more text {anotheritem}"

What I want is an array with {firstitem}, {anotheritem}, and {anotheritem} in it.

Any idea?

Much appreciated!

-Carl

[znouza]

try this:

function GetElements($text)
{
preg_match_all("/{(.*)}/U",urldecode($text),$arg);
return $arg[1];
}

all {xxxx} will be in returned array

[Anon]

Thanks for the response

What your function allows me to do is get the contents of what is in between the {}. I ran it on this variable:

$body="Please come again {fIrstname} {TeST} {lastname} {compaNy}more text";

and if I do this:

echo count(GetElements($subject));

all i get is fIrstname.

What i need is an array with {fIrstname}, {TeST}, {lastname}, and {compaNy} in it with the {}.

Thank you !

-Carl