Extracting information from a string

[chrisdarby]

Hi,

I am looking for a solution to this...

String:
This is a [random] string that contains [this] in it and [that] in it

What i would like to do is write a function to pickup anything inside the square brackets and place it in an array for example, processing the string above to return an array that has

random
this
that

so that i can then use that information to extract bits and bobs from my database... is there anyone that can point me in the right direction.

Thanks

[rish1103]

look up tokenization

[rish1103]

http://us3.php.net/strtok

actually taht to be exact.

[rish1103]

sorry for splitting it into three posts but basically after you tokenize your string, you store it into an array and print out or use the array values that you want. its been a long day so things are not coming to me all at once :p