hi all, am trying to cut some texts from a serries of string values e.g. "this is how we do (50 cents feat. the game)" "give it to me (nelly feat timerland)" "let me hold you (bow wow feat omarion)" i want to cut off the text between the comas and i've seen some examples <? $string = "Hello world, <b>this is a test</b>"; preg_match('/<b>.*<\/b>/i', $string, $result); echo strip_tags($result[0]); ?> <? $string = "Hello world, <b>this is a test</b>"; list($junk, $good) = split('<b>', $string); list($good, $junk) = split('</b>', $good); echo $good; ?> but they wont work with comas --------------------------------- Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links.