regular expression

[gaucho]

Hello,

I have a little problem getting a working regular expression for the following haystack:

some text <|another text <| and another one|> the last one|> and this is the end.

The regular expression should find the text within <| and |>. In this case it should find
1. another text <| and another one|> the last one
2. <| and another one|>

As you can see the pattern is nested.

This one does not work, but this is obvious.

preg_match_all("=<\|((\s|.)*[^\|>]*)\|>=U", $text, $um); 

Tried some more complex ones, tried some modified patterns to find HTML-Tags from Internet, but nothing worked.

Can somebody help me?

Thanks in advance

gaucho

[HalfaBee]

Would something along the lines of this work?

preg_match_all( '#[<|]>|[<|][>|]#' , $test , $um );

[gaucho]

Hello HalfaBee,
thanks for your post.

I tried your code but it doesn't really work.
What it does is it matches the inner text within the pattern, but not the outer.

Thanks again

gaucho

[HalfaBee]

I missread your first post.

Would this be cheating?

$d = explode( '<|' , str_replace( '|>' , '<|' , $text) );

or preg_split( '[<|||>]' , $text );