Hello Shaun, Friday, March 4, 2005, 12:54:34 PM, you wrote: S> Please could someone tell me how i can extract the information from S> a string that is after 'ID_' and before '_FN' <?php $myString = "ID_723456ABc_FN"; preg_match("/ID_([a-z0-9]+)_FN/i",$myString, $extracted); echo $extracted[1]; ?> This will match any upper or lowercase letter and number. If you have other characters like _ , etc, then you'll need to put those in the [a-z0-9_,] too. -- Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 3.0.2.3 Rush under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php