[Resolved] Finding out what text was matched with my regular expression

[Brendan_Nolan]

I have written a simple regular expression to break a string at the occurance of either

 or 

This is it -

$text_chunks = preg_split("(\[HTML\]|\[\/HTML\])", $text);

That works fine, but later on I need to know what preceded the chunk of text (ie

 of 

) Can I make the regualar expression go back 6 places so that it will return either

"

 hjgdsgshjgjhfgdsgfgshjgfd"
or
"/HTML] jvhghjkdgjghsjg"

So that later on I can see what the string starts with?

[dave420]

I'd suggest using preg_match instead of preg_split:

preg_match_all("/\[html\](.*)\[\/html\]/U", $text, $matches);

That pattern will match every bit of text inbetween

 and 

. It'll even match every occurence if there are more than one

 pair.

dave