split a string into array

[xbl1]

Hi;i am trying to split a string into array by regular expression, but it could not work, could anyone help, please.my work as following, but it does not work. i want to break the string into two part, one is "this is the test 1", and another one is "this is testing 2 </object> this is test 3"; $string = "this is the test 1 <object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"> this is testing 2 </object> this is test 3"; $str=split("<object(.?)>",$string); echo $str[0]; echo "<br>"; echo $str[1];

[Synook]

Try

$str=split("<object(.*?)>",$string);

[jhecht]

Can i ask as to WHY you want to break it up like that?

[xbl1]

Try

$str=split("<object(.*?)>",$string);

it doesn't work, but i found the solution already, i do as following:preg_split("/<object[^>]*>/", $string);

[xbl1]

Can i ask as to WHY you want to break it up like that?

well, i just do want to get some values from a string.