[RESOLVED] how to get data between < > symbols

[endurox]

Hello all,

Can anyone provide assistance with extracting data between the following symbols: <>

For example: <Data to be extracted. Resides here.>

I'm trying to get the above "data to be extracted resides here" text set as a variable for database inserting. I've tried preg_match but am unable to come up with the regular expression. Thank you.

//parse COMMENTS: <asdf>
$comments_start_position = strpos($message,"COMMENTS: ");
$comments_dirty = substr($message,$comments_start_position+11);
//retrieve comments
function get_comments($comments_dirty){
    $h1tags = preg_match_all('/(<)(\w.*)(>)/ismU',$comments_dirty,$patterns);
    $res = array();
    array_push($res,$patterns[2]);
    array_push($res,count($patterns[2]));
    return $res;
} 
$comments = get_comments($comments_dirty); 
echo $comments;

All I get is the following text: Array

[Desdinova]

first of all, try a print_r($comments);

[endurox]

Hey, thanks for your prompt reply. Since its a piped script there is no output that is provided to the screen. Right now I just have it e-mailing me the results. I'll still try to see if I can send print_r through.

[Desdinova]

print_r($comments, true) will actually return the value to you, so you might be able to work that in with your email. Example:

$result = print_r($comments, true);

then echo $result; will give you the same response as print_$(comments) would.

[endurox]

Thank you, I didn't realize I could do that. Still learning. It helped me narrow down the issue and get it resolved. Thanks again.