Problem regarding PHP Programming Language

[NetWorm]

hi there

I am having a small query regarding php programming language. My question is What is the php regular expression to get everything before a certain character?

Please help me regarding this problem

Your views will be appreciated

[Praetor]

Whatever you place in your regular expression you want to encase in in parenthesis and those items will be returned in their own array...

I can never get it first time around but I imagine it would be something like this.

Code:

preg_match('@table(.*?)[:]{1}(.*?)@si',$string,$matches);

print('<pre>');
print_r($matches);
print('</pre>');

[Katty]

function LimitText($Text,$Min,$Max,$MinAddChar) {
if (strlen($Text) < $Min) {
$Limit = $Min-strlen($Text);
$Text .= $MinAddChar;
}
elseif (strlen($Text) >= $Max) {
$words = explode(" ", $Text);
$check=1;
while (strlen($Text) >= $Max) {
$c=count($words)-$check;
$Text=substr($Text,0,(strlen($words[$c])+1)*(-1));
$check++;
}
}

return $Text;
}

[kelfro]

function explode_escaped($delimiter, $string){
$exploded = explode($delimiter, $string);
$fixed = array();
for($k = 0, $l = count($exploded); $k < $l; ++$k){
if($exploded[$k][strlen($exploded[$k]) - 1] == '\\') {
if($k + 1 >= $l) {
$fixed[] = trim($exploded[$k]);
break;
}
$exploded[$k][strlen($exploded[$k]) - 1] = $delimiter;
$exploded[$k] .= $exploded[$k + 1];
array_splice($exploded, $k + 1, 1);
--$l;
--$k;
} else $fixed[] = trim($exploded[$k]);
}
return $fixed;
}