Alexis, > Unfortunately, for what I'm trying to do, it is of little use. I > probably should have mentioned that the bit of text I used is actually > just part of a much bigger bit of text so exploding on a space would > cause havoc with the rest of it. Hence the REGEX question. $text = '(\(EX\) RV-6 )'; preg_match_all("/\([^\)]+\) ([^\)]+) \)/", $text, $result); echo $result[1][0]; Take care -- Kim Christensen kim.christensen@xxxxxxxxx -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php