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[!--quoteo(post=351768:date=Mar 5 2006, 07:51 AM:name=wickning1)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(wickning1 @ Mar 5 2006, 07:51 AM) [snapback]351768[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] Use (.*?) instead of (.*). Other than that your regex is fine. Use something like this to get your values out: [code]<?php foreach ($found as $match) {     echo $match[1] . "<br>\n"; } ?>[/code] [/quote] hi .. thx for ur help ...it works now .. can you please tell me what did the ? changed !? thanks again ..

hi all.... i hope that someone will help me with this problem .. i have a string with some (tags) on it .. the tags are not html tags ...i used <:::test:::>...<:::/test:::> to easy point to the words i want later ... the problem is .. i would like to get the words between those tags .. i tried the preg_match_all but it seems to get the whole string not only the words between 2 tags .. an example about what i need : $stris="<:::test:::>hi my name is <:::/test:::><:::test:::> Testtext <:::/test:::> and here is another <:::test>text<:::/test:::>"; the preg_match_all should return : 1 match :hi my name is 2 match :Testtext 3 match :text please help me to get the right expression,since it is not working with me .. here is what i have : [code]$findwords = preg_match_all("/<:::test:::>(.*)<:::\/test:::>/", $stris, $found);[/code] thanks in advance ...