Regular Expression Looping

[degauss]

Hi.

I have a few lines of code that comprise of something like the following:

@@globalHeader@@

@@BitOfText@@

@@globalFooter@@

What I want to do is go through the lines above with ereg and weed out anything that has @@<whatever>@@ in it and put it into an array.

I've noticed that part of the ereg function is to put any matches into an array, which works out great for what I want, but whenever I use the function below

function elementReaderWriter($passIn) {
	if (ereg("@@[a-zA-Z]*@@", $passIn, $passInMatches)) {
		for ($x=0;$x<=count($passInMatches);$x++) {
			print $passInMatches[$x];
		}
	}
}

I only get a return on @@globalHeader@@.

Am I missing something? I thought ereg looped through the text regardless?

[mrhappiness]

preg_match_all('%@@(.*)@@%U', $passIn, $matches);
print_r($matches);

hth

[degauss]

Excellent, thank you 🙂