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Old 03-31-2009
Simple regex problem?
Hi all,

I am looking to create words from a sentence which adhere to a custom search pattern from my website:

Example:

![hello] +![bye] /[said] +=[from] ~[to]

where the terms ! = not, +! = AND NOT, += - and equals and ~ = can be like....

Now here is the issue...i want to split a sentence like the one above on spaces, this is easily done in PHP with a simple split on " ". However this will not work if i have something like:

![hello] +![bye] /[said] +=[from] ~[to] my name

as my name is not surrounded with any of the custom tags and has a space in it...

so basically my output should be:

![hello]
+![bye]
/[said]
+=[from]
~[to]
my name

Any help people? SmilieSmilie
Last edited by muay_tb; 03-31-2009 at 12:07 PM..
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Old 03-31-2009
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