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.

Answer 1

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