Help with String Manipulation

[richie]

Hi,

I need to extract a portion of a string using a given pattern.

The text I want is sandwitched between boundaries.

Here is an example string:

$text = "title one-==-##-==-Community Educator-=-#-=-title one ends, two begins-==-##-==-Laboratory Assistant-=-#-=-two ends";

You will notice that there is a repeating pattern:

-==-##-==-
-=-#-=-

How can I get the text between the two patterns?

In this case, I need to extract:

Community Educator
Laboratory Assistant

I tried this without success:

ereg("^{(-==-##-==-)[.]+(-=-#-=-)$",} $text, $outputArray);

TIA,
Richie.

[tsinka]

Hi,

try this code:

preg_match_all("/-==-##-==-(.*?)-=-#-=-/",$text,$matches);
print_r($matches);

$matches[1][0]
$matches[1][1]
...
$matches[1][n]

contain the data of interest.

Thomas

[richie]

Thomas,

Just what I need. Thanks a lot.