Get multiple substrings from a string in PHP -

i want extract multiple substrings string , put in array..

for example:

$string = '{[john][16 years old][new york]}{[michael][22 years old][las vegas]}{[smith][32 years old][chicago]}'; $array = ["john,16 years old, new york, mihael, 22 years old, las vegas, smith, 32 years old, chicago"]; 

someone ideea?

a simple preg_match it:

$string = '{[john][16 years old][new york]}{[michael][22 years old][las vegas]}{[smith][32 years old][chicago]}'; preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/', $string , $matches, preg_pattern_order); print_r($matches[1]);  /* array (     [0] => john     [1] => 16 years old     [2] => new york     [3] => michael     [4] => 22 years old     [5] => las vegas     [6] => smith     [7] => 32 years old     [8] => chicago ) */ 

demo:

http://ideone.com/reaior

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update:

to loop matches can use:

preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/', $string, $matches, preg_pattern_order); ($i = 0; $i < count($matches[1]); $i++) {     echo $matches[1][$i]; }