regular expression help--please

[Anon]

Hi all,

I'm trying to write a regular expression that will pull any data enclosed in [ ] "brackets" out of a string. I'm using preg_match_all like this:
preg_match_all("[(.+)]", "[This is some text]", $phrases);

phrases[0] always comes back empty

I new to regular expressions and need to get this working....anyone have any clues?

Thanks so much
Rodney

[sp0rk]

Three problems. You're missing the needed slashes in the regexp, escaping the magic of the dot and not escaping the magic of the brackets.

preg_match_all("/[(.+)]/", "[This is some text]", $phrases);

Original phrase in $phrases[0], matched text in $phrases[1].