preg_split values between specific tag

Question

Good day.

I'm having a problem with a pattern.

Let's assume I have a string like this:

Hello [person]Name[/person], I don't know regex like [person]Another_name[/person] does.

I need to preg_split this string to get an array like this:

Array(0 => 'Name', 1 => 'Another_name');

I've been trying to solve this for some time and still no luck.

Pardon for my ignorance. Any kind of help is kindly appreciated.

Can we assume that there will never be any variation in the syntax of `[person]` (ie it will always look as shown in the question; no additional attributes or anything like that), and that there will be no possibility of nested tags? If we can assume that, it's not too hard. — SDC, Jan 31 '13 at 14:33
* See also [Open source RegexBuddy alternatives](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/89718/is-there) and [Online regex testing](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32282/regex-testing) for some helpful tools, or [RegExp.info](http://regular-expressions.info/) for a nicer tutorial. — mario, Jan 31 '13 at 14:40
thanks a lot! solution was to use preg_match_all instead of preg_split — Maxim R, Jan 31 '13 at 14:55

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '13 at 14:40

You'll want to use something like preg_match_all instead of preg_split:

preg_match_all("|\[person\](.*)\[/person\]|U",
    "Hello [person]Name[/person], I don't know regex like [person]Another_name[/person] does.",
    $out);

echo $out[1][0] . ", " . $out[1][1] . "\n";

You can learn more about how $out is structured here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php

preg_split values between specific tag

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