Hey Guys, Solved this, took your advise and avoided regex as its an overkill.
Case you're interested: $th_var="98797-234234--2c-something-2c"; $piece = explode("--2", $th_var); echo $piece[0]; (and if i want to use the second "part"... $piece[1] ) Thanks to everyone who gave me examples, links and suggested alternatives like explode(), but personally I thought explode too was a regex..:-(. Cheers, -Ryan A -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php