(*SOLVED*) Help with regular expression

[bljepp69]

I've been trying to come up with a single regular expression to break a string apart, but I've not been able to get one that works in all instances.  I have a string of song names.  The way it's given to me is shown in the example text below:

1.20th Century Boy2.Rock On3.Hanging On The Telephone4.Waterloo Sunset5.Hell Raiser6.10538 Overture7.Street Life8.Drive In A Saturday9.Little Bit Of Love10.Golden 21 Of Rock & Roll11.No Matter What12.He's Gonna Step On You Again13.Don't Believe A Word14.Stay With Me

It's easy enough to find all the song numbers.  Something like - '/([\d]{1,2}\.)/' - will return just the song numbers.  When I try to expand the expression to find the song names, the closest I can get is - '/([\d]{1,2}\.[^(\d{1,2}\.)]+)/'.   However, that won't return song names that start with numbers, such as number 1 and 6 above, and it truncates number 10 at the number.

I'm really hoping to be able to split this into the proper pieces with a single reg ex.  Any help is appreciated.

[Psycho]

There is a dedicated forum here specifically for regular expressions: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/board,43.0.html

[obsidian]

Try using preg_split() on it to get your song names.
[code]
<?php
// where $String is your list of songs
$names = preg_split('/[\d]{1,2}\./', $String);
?>
[/code]

$names should then hold an array of all the song names. You may have to run a trim() on them to get rid of some leading spaces, but I think this will help you out.

Good luck

[bljepp69]

Thanks!  That's the help I needed to finish this up.