Slicing up an array between two strings?

[glerma]

I was wondering if anyone knew how to create two separate associative arrays between two brackets using PHP? I have a large CLOB column type in an Oracle database that I have to chop up into pieces, then extract the pieces into variables for display into a html table.

Example:

{ string1a, string2a, {string1b, string2b,string3b} string3a, string4a }

$array1 should have strings 1a-4a;
$array2 should have strings 1b-3b;

I hope i explained correctly my dillema.

I am trying to create multiple arrays with a string that has nested strings, sub-divided by brackets. The key here is the brackets. I can only sub-divide the sections of the strings by the open-bracket/close-brackets.

Cant quite figure it out.

Thanks to anyone in advance.

[van__]

sounds like you need a regex.

This snippit uses 2, maybe you could get it down to one with backreferencing.

<?
$str = '{ string1a, string2a, {string1b, string2b,string3b} string3a, string4a }';

preg_match("/^{{(.[{}]+{(.[{}])}.)}+$/s",$str,$split);}
$string_A = preg_replace("/{.*}/s",'',$split[1]);
$string_B = $split[2];

echo "$string_A<br>\n$string_B";
?>