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Put in seperate $var content whats in between *&&*

Good day to you all,
I'm looking for a way to retrieve the text in between *& &* and put it's content into a $var. for each occurrence with in a string.

$occu[0] = "dsfsdf";
$occu[1] = "10";
$occu[2] = "10sct";

Is there a way to do this ?

I know how to do it but not recusively.

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function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){
    $string = " ".$string;
    $ini = strpos($string,$start);
    if ($ini == 0) return "";
    $ini += strlen($start);
    $len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;
    return substr($string,$ini,$len);
}

$parsed = get_string_between($tache, "*&", "&*");
$tache = str_replace("*&","<div class=\"progress-containers\"><div style=\"width:",$tache);
$tache = str_replace("&*","%\">$parsed</div></div>",$tache);

Can somebody can give me a tips ?

Impressive, here is what I come back with from before your post.
how to implement it with a foreach loop.

Let says instead I use index 0 to give me the whole piece and I replace the whole string with anther with the "number" index 1 with the formated html. See code

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preg_match_all('/\*&([a-z0-9]+)&\*/i',$tache,$out, PREG_SET_ORDER);
echo $out[0][0] . ", " . $out[1][0] . ", " . $out[2][0] . ", " . $out[3][0] . ", " . $out[4][0] . "\n";
$i = 0;
foreach ($out[$i][0] as &$value) {
$value = str_replace("*&","<div class=\"progress-containers\"><div style=\"width:",$value);
$value = str_replace("&*","%\">$value[$i][1]</div></div>",$value);
    $i++;
}

Your loop can be confusing. It isn't wrong but can be hard to understand what is going on since you are pretty much using it like a while loop.

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$i = 0;

$total = sizeof($out);

while($i < $total) {

    $value = $out[$i][0];



    $value = str_replace("*&","<div class=\"progress-containers\"><div style=\"width:",$value);

    $value = str_replace("&*","%\">$value[$i][1]</div></div>",$value);

    $i++;

}

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for($i = 0, $total = sizeof($out); $i < $total; $i++) {

    $value = $out[$i][0];



    $value = str_replace("*&","<div class=\"progress-containers\"><div style=\"width:",$value);

    $value = str_replace("&*","%\">$value[$i][1]</div></div>",$value);

}

Here is how you would use a foreach loop.

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foreach($out as $val) {

    $value = $val[0];



    $value = str_replace("*&","<div class=\"progress-containers\"><div style=\"width:",$value);

    $value = str_replace("&*","%\">$value[$i][1]</div></div>",$value);

}

I didn't update variables in the HTML within the loop so those may be incorrect.