extracting from a pattern help

[Destramic]

hey guys im wanting to search a string and return a 1 - many results

 

string  =  "controller/action/:game/:parameter"

 

now in this instance i want to extract game and parameter but the string could consist of

anything but i only want the values that look like :this :test :game :whatever

 

i hope someone can help please....thanks

[requinix]

Try preg_match_all and

'/(?\w+/'