- preg_match_all: documentation ( source)
<?php
$txt='28:Apr:2015 "This is an Example!"';
$re1='.*?'; # Non-greedy match on filler
$re2='(Example)'; # Word 1
if ($c=preg_match_all ("/".$re1."/is", $txt, $matches))
{
$word1=$matches[1][0];
print "($word1) \n";
}