- preg_match_all: documentation ( source)
<?php
preg_match_all("|<[^>]+>(.*)</[^>]+>|U",
"|b|example: |/b||div align=left|this is a test|/div|",
$out, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
echo $out[0][0].", ".$out[0][1]."\n";
echo $out[1][0].", ".$out[1][1]."\n";
?>