extracting text in a string?

[Anon]

i have this string:

[Day Month 00 00:00:00 Year] [Email Here] Name (Type) <Group>

so it would look like this
[Tue Apr 09 03:54:00 2002] [1 [e-mail]] Jim (Customer) <Group A>

what i would like to do is extract each thing between the brackets.

date=[Tue Apr 09 03:54:00 2002]
email=[[e-mail]]
name=Jim
type=(Customer)
group=<Group A>

if thats not possible, just grab the name?

[van__]

...dunno, but just off the top of my head....
Check it out and see if it works

<?
preg_match('/([.][^\s]+)\s([.][^{\s]+)\s([a-z][\s]+)\s((.)[\s])\s(<.*>)/is',$str,$array)}

print_r($array);
?>

[Anon]

keep gettin errors 🙁

thanks though!

[van__]

Well, I never got errors,
but there was a missing ";" at teh end of the preg_match.

But... it didn't work anyway.

Here's the fixed version, that I even bothered to test for you.

<?
$str = "[Tue Apr 09 03:54:00 2002] [1 [e-mail]] Jim (Customer) <Group A>";
preg_match('/([.])\s([.])\s([a-z])\s((.))\s(<.*>)/is',$str,$array);
print_r($array);
?>

[Anon]

great!! thanks

ive run into another problem.. it seems every entry with "ANONYMOUS" as there email doesnt work.

[Anon]

oops, it did. i just didnt see it!