How do I get the values between two brackets?

How do I get the values between two brackets? For example:

$var = 'name(bob) | title(bar) | value(5)';

What code would I need to use if I want to get the values 'bob', 'bar', and '5'.
I thought I could use strpos() and strstr() to get the values but my code isn't working!

Plz Help!!!

~imozeb

 

<?php

$var = 'name(bob) | title(bar) | value(5)';


preg_match_all('~([^ ]*)\(.*\)~U', $var, $values);

print_r($values[1]);

?>

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I'm new to regexps. How do you dump the variables into separete containers. For example $name = name value, $title = title value, and $value = value value? And is there anyway I can stop searching for new text after it has found those three values?

 

Is there anyway I can do it using strpos() because when I changed $var to 'name(bob) | title(bar) | value(5) # QWERTYUIOP{}|":LKJHGFDSAZXCVBNM<>?+_)(*&^%$#@!234567890-=~`' it printed out all that extra text. Is there anyway preg_match_all can work to fix this, mabye like stopping at the third value.

Thanks, Danx10!

 

<?php

$var = 'name(bob) | title(bar) | value(5)';

preg_match_all('~([^ ]*)\(.*\)~U', $var, $values);

$name = $values[1][0];

$title = $values[1][1];

$value = $values[1][2];

?>

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