php split between

[ahmed24]

i have the following code

$split = split('[<>']', $value);

that gets the data in between the < > characters in $value, but i would like to know how i can get the data from instead of < > i want it to be like START_ and _END. if i do it like:

$split = split('[START__END>']', $value);

it doesnt seem to work

any ideas?

thanks

[ahmed24]

instead of using a 1 character on each side as the identifier i am basically trying to use words.

can anyone help?

[omoutop]

preg_split() perhaps?

[ahmed24]

cant seem to get it to work even with preg_split()

any other ideas?

[omoutop]

str_replace? explode?
cant think of anthing else

[andrewsmd]

can you post an real example with a sample string and tell us what results you would expect? To me it looks like you have a typo right here
END>']'

Do you want END>]' or END>\'}]'

[andrewsmd]

I had to assume what your string looks like. Give me some more data and I can tweak this.

$str = "[<text in between 1>]we don't want this[<text in between 2>]we don't want this[<text in between 3>]";

$arr = explode("[<", $str);
$return = array();

foreach($arr as $i){

$tempStr = substr($i, 0, (strpos($i, ">]")));
array_push($return, $tempStr);

}//foreach