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How to extract data from a variable between two separators?

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Old December 24th, 2002, 10:15 PM
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Hi,

Let's say I have the fallowing structure:

PHP Code:
<?php

$article = "Ok.. some text here...

(start)
first * second
third * forth
fifth * sixth
and * so on
(end)

some other text here...
";

?>


And I want to extract what's between (start) & (end) and put the result into a new variable.

The fallowing code is only working when all the data on the same line!

PHP Code:
if (preg_match("/\(start\)(.+?)\(end\)/", $content, $match))
{
    print $match[1];
} 


Thanks in advance.
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Old December 25th, 2002, 06:14 PM
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You can try using explode()
PHP Code:
 $text = "Ok.. some text here...";

$newText = explode("...",$text);

echo $newText[1]; // Echo's "some text here" 

This creates an array of strings using the first part of explode as a separator.

Is that what you're trying to do?
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