split a string into array

[xbl01234]

Hi;
i am trying to split a string into array by regular expression, but it could not work, could anyone help
, please.

my work as following, but it does not work.
i want to break the string into two part, one is "this is the test 1", and another one is "this is testing 2 </object> this is test 3";
$string = "this is the test 1 <object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"> this is testing 2 </object> this is test 3";

$str=split("<object(.?)>",$string);
echo $str[0];
echo "<br>";
echo $str[1];

[coopster]

Search for anything that is not your closing element symbol (the greater than sign) followed by a greater than sign.

$str=split("[[:space:]]*<object[^>]+>[[:space:]]*", $string);

[xbl01234]

Thanks a lot