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<?php
function getStrsBetween($s,$s1,$s2=false,$offset=0) {
    /*====================================================================
    Function to scan a string for items encapsulated within a pair of tags

    getStrsBetween(string, tag1, <tag2>, <offset>

    If no second tag is specified, then match between identical tags

    Returns an array indexed with the encapsulated text, which is in turn
    a sub-array, containing the position of each item.

    Notes:
    strpos($needle,$haystack,$offset)
    substr($string,$start,$length)

    ====================================================================*/

    if( $s2 === false ) { $s2 = $s1; }
    $result = array();
    $L1 = strlen($s1);
    $L2 = strlen($s2);

    if( $L1==0 || $L2==0 ) {
        return false;
    }

    do {
        $pos1 = strpos($s,$s1,$offset);

        if( $pos1 !== false ) {
            $pos1 += $L1;

            $pos2 = strpos($s,$s2,$pos1);

            if( $pos2 !== false ) {
                $key_len = $pos2 - $pos1;

                $this_key = substr($s,$pos1,$key_len);

                if( !array_key_exists($this_key,$result) ) {
                    $result[$this_key] = array();
                }

                $result[$this_key][] = $pos1;

                $offset = $pos2 + $L2;
            } else {
                $pos1 = false;
            }
        }
    } while($pos1 !== false );

    return $result;
}
?>
lol web developers.

Haha, holy shit.

Actually, I've bumped into people who (honest to god!) claimed they'd rather write ten pages of code rather than one line of regex.

Suffice to say, all of them were complete ignorant mouth-breathers.