extended 'explode' function?

[Anon]

Hi everyone,

I have bumped into the following problem: I need to parse a string for different tags (eg., <xtext></xtext>, <xfile></xfile, etc.). If it would be a single string to parse for, it would be easy to find it with the 'explode' function. But: how do I make a function like explode, which could be called like:

explode ("<xtext>" | "<xfile>", $my_string);

It doesn't have to be a function exactly like that, but it should be a algorithm which returns me the first occurence of one of the strings in a bigger text.

Thank you,
bogdan

[vsego]

split("<xtext>|<xfile>", $your_string);

Don't forget closing tags if there are any...

[Anon]

Hey, that works! 🙂 PHP is cool! 🙂 I have wrote the solution myself, but I thought (oh, that will never work)... What a mistake...

thank you,
bogdan