Shantam_Bhavsar

Thank you David, As per your explanation i changed line no. 5 to $test = preg_replace("(.*\[test=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/test\].*)is","$1",$data); and it worked.

<?php $data='123 [test=abc]cba[/test] 321'; $test = preg_replace("(\[test=(.+?)\](.+?)\[\/test\])is","$1",$data); echo $test; ?> I expect the above code to return abc but instead of returning abc it returns 123 abc 321 Please tell me where am i wrong.