dziuram@hotmail.com (Martin Dziura) writes: > is there some sort of parsing call i can evoke to extract the url? > Beginning with the http and ending with the first white space? $str = "foobarbazhttp://www.foo.bar/"; preg_match("/(http:\/\/\S+)/", $str, $match); $match[1] should contain the url part of $str. There are more sophisticated regular expressions you can make for extracting url's, but from your description, I think this should be enough. -- --Fredrik "Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle." -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php