regexp help

I would need some easy way to split a string with certain tags into a array, but i cant get it to work. Could some1 help me.

The strings r like:

[sething]blahblah [something]

so i would need the stuff in [] into the array.

can you insert seperators (like | or : )?

Have you tried this in preg_match?
pattern="/[(.*?)]/";

No i cant. I get the strings from somewhere else... and i need the easiest way to get them into array

I tried this now:

$array = preg_split("/[(.*?)]/" ,$string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );

But the problem is that it still gives the stuff between these tags too, so it doesnt help. I would only need text inside [].

with a string "[test]test2 [test3]" , i get an array with these cells:

0:
1:test
2:test2
3:test3
4:

Reto wrote:

Have you tried this in preg_match?
pattern="/[(.*?)]/";

other ideas besides regexp's r also welcome. :-)

Use a preg_match("/[(.*?)]/",$string,$match);
which gives me 2 matches:
Match 1: [test]
Match 2: [test3]

preg_match stops after it finds 1 match... preg_match_all does the job, but it makes "difficult" 2-dim arrays...