Posted by Carl on 11/08/07 19:17

sberry <sean@buildingonline.com> writes:

> In PHP I have many more options for functions that do regular
> expression than I did in Perl. My question is what is the best one to
> use for doing the following:
>
> Give the following:
> {Somestring.somestring.somestring} blah blah {somestring} value here
> not used {more.text.here}
>
> I want an array like the following:
> [0] => Somestring.somestring.somestring
> [1] => somestring
> [2] => more.text.here
>
> So basically I just want to capture the contents (alpha-numeric +
> periods) inside of curly braces.
>
> Thanks for any help.

This should get you started:

$string = "{Somestring.somestring.somestring} blah blah
{somestring} value here not used {more.text.here}";
$pattern = '/\{.+?\}/';
preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);
print_r($matches);

Hope that helps,

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