Need help on regular expressions

[Cosmic_P]

Hi

I have a txt.-file with multiple names of people in it. The names are displayed as follows:

|name1|name2|name3|name4| etc.

I want to extract the names using preg_match_all. But how do I write the pattern to match? I need the names, not the vertical bars. I tried this one:

'/|\w+|/'

But the problem with this one is that it also extracts the vertical bars.

Can someone help me?

[LordShryku]

Why not just [man]explode[/man] on the bar?

[Cosmic_P]

Originally posted by LordShryku
Why not just [man]explode[/man] on the bar?

Because later on I want to change the script to look for names that (let's say) start mit S. For that reason I'd like to use regular expressions (and not with taking a detour using other functions.