The problem with that is there are about 40 different listings in the one field. Silver Small Corp;;;;;X^%%%%%\n#####\n Gold Medium Corp;;;;;RE^%%%%%\n#####\n Platinum Large Corp;;;;;YRE^%%%%%\n#####\n being three of them so maybe this is a bettter way of listing it ... Silver Small Corp;;;;;X^%%%%%\n#####\nGold Medium Corp;;;;;RE^%%%%%\n#####\nPlatinum Large Corp;;;;;YRE^%%%%%\n#####\n ... On 11/4/05, Jay Blanchard <jay.blanchard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] > New to php so please bear with me. I'm trying to parse through a > field that has some information in it, the information is stored with > other information and is delimited in a certain pattern so I figure > using reg ex I can get the information I want out of the text. > > So here is an example. > > Silver Small Corp;;;;;X^%%%%%\n#####\n > Gold Medium Corp;;;;;RE^%%%%%\n#####\n > Platinum Large Corp;;;;;YRE^%%%%%\n#####\n > > Reall all I need is the information on Silver Small Corp, etc and the > X all the rest is gibberish. Is Reg Ex the best way to do this or > would it be some other way. > [/snip] > > You couuld use explode > > $myField = "Silver Small Corp;;;;;X^%%%%%\n#####\n"; > > $foo = explode(";;;;;", $myField); > > echo $foo[0]; > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php