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<?php $test_strings = [ '0a1b2c3', '0a1b2c', 'a1b2c3', 'a1b2c', '1b' ]; /** * Seperate a block of code by sub blocks. Example, removing all <script>...<script> tags from HTML kode * * @param string $str, text block * @param string $startDelimiter, string to match for start of block to be extracted * @param string $endDelimiter, string to match for ending the block to be extracted * @return array [all full blocks, whats left of string] */ function getDelimitedStrings($str, $startDelimiter, $endDelimiter) { $contents = array(); $startDelimiterLength = strlen($startDelimiter); $endDelimiterLength = strlen($endDelimiter); $startFrom = $contentStart = $contentEnd = $outStart = $outEnd = 0; while (false !== ($contentStart = strpos($str, $startDelimiter, $startFrom))) { $contentStart += $startDelimiterLength; $contentEnd = strpos($str, $endDelimiter, $contentStart); $outEnd = $contentStart - 1; if (false === $contentEnd) { break; } $contents['in'][] = substr($str, ($contentStart-$startDelimiterLength), ($contentEnd + ($startDelimiterLength*2) +1) - $contentStart); if( $outStart ){ $contents['out'][] = substr($str, ($outStart+$startDelimiterLength+1), $outEnd - $outStart - ($startDelimiterLength*2)); } else if( ($outEnd - $outStart - ($startDelimiterLength-1)) > 0 ){ $contents['out'][] = substr($str, $outStart, $outEnd - $outStart - ($startDelimiterLength-1)); } $startFrom = $contentEnd + $endDelimiterLength; $startFrom = $contentEnd; $outStart = $startFrom; } $total_length = strlen($str); $current_position = $outStart + $startDelimiterLength + 1; if( $current_position < $total_length ) $contents['out'][] = substr($str, $current_position); return $contents; } foreach($test_strings AS $string){ var_dump( getDelimitedStrings($string, '', '') ); }