Date: 12/19/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: no keywords

Ok, I'm trying to create what I think is called a parser.

I have some text stored in var (say called $foo) and somewhere in this text is

Now, I'm trying to work out to copy the "function_name" part into another var so I can then search the db for the code and then use the str_replace function to substitute the original tag for the correct code or text.

Now I have been told this is a task for regular expressions, but I have been looking into this and I’m just finding myself getting overwhelmed.

Can anyone help?

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