Get A String Between 2 Markers..?

[cyfer65]

Is there any universal PHP function to get the string between 2 specified markers in a string..??<<<$RandomText>>>like say I wanted to always get the $RandomText that was between "<<<" and ">>>" is there any PHP function to do this..??like StringBetween($Var, $Start, $End)

[Synook]

You could use regular expressions:

preg_match_all("/<<<(.*?)>>>/", $string, $matches);print_r($matches);

[jexus]

<?phpfunction stringBetween($var, $start, $end) {	return preg_match('{' . preg_quote($start) . '(.*?)' . preg_quote($end) . '}s', $var, $m)		? $m[1]		: '';}