preg match all question

[turbohost]

Hi guys,

Got a question about preg_match_all. I'm using preg_match_all to fetch all the items in a text which are between curly brackets. There is one problem ... sometimes there are curly brackets between other curly brackets.

Here is an example:
preg_match_all works with this one {bla}{bla}{bla}
but not with this one {bla{bla}bla}

This is the code I use
preg_match_all('/\{(.+?)\}/ims',$article,$itemis);

Any suggestions ?

[whoisgregg]

What would you like the output to be when that happens?

[turbohost]

if this is the input {bla1{bla2}bla3} then I would like to have this 'bla1{bla2}bla3' and this 'bla2' as output

[turbohost]

is this possible ?

[turbohost]

getting a headache of this one :-/ somebody ?

[coopster]

I just answered a very similar question yesterday in the Perl forum. You can use recursion [webmasterworld.com] to match nested patterns.