Regular expressions!!?!??!?

[Anon]

Here is my problem:

Using the perl-compatible regular expression funtions in PHP, (preg_match(), preg_replace(), etc.) I would like to do the following:

Match the portion of a string that falls between two predefined words.

So for instance if I had the string:
$mystring = "word blah bloh bleh word";

I would like to match everything between the two "word"'s. Something like this seems intuitive:

/word[^word]*word/

...but does not work.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

-Amitrus

[cordex]

Would

/word[^{word].*word[(word)]$/}

work?

[drkatz]

You could try
/word(.*)word/

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preg_match_all('/word(.*?)word/','word bla bloh blaeh word word blop word', $a);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($a);
echo '</pre>';