Newbie looking for solution ideas

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Hi.  I am looking for ideas to solve this problem:

In a simple text file, I have two pattern strings.

Let's call them XXXXX and ZZZZZ.

Using Php, I want to find XXXXX and print out XXXXX

along with everything in between until I come to ZZZZZ

and print out ZZZZZ too.

 

I am new at using Php.  If you can't share some code examples, can you just point me to some functions that will do the trick?  I can read about the functions and figure it out, but I just need to know where to look.  Thanks in advance for your help.

 

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Something like this should work.

preg_match('~XXXXX(.*?)ZZZZZ~', $input, $out);