I meant i want to get rid of the braces. e.g. get the text up to the start of the first brace and ignore anything from the first brace onwards Dan Shirah <mrsquash2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Maybe I'm blind, but I don't see any commas in the text you are referring to. On 8/2/07, Don Don wrote: > > 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, this is a test"; > preg_match('/.*<\/b>/i', $string, $result); > echo strip_tags($result[0]); > ?> > > > $string = "Hello world, this is a test"; > list($junk, $good) = split('', $string); > list($good, $junk) = split('', $good); > echo $good; > ?> > > but they wont work with comas > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web > links. --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.