Divide 3 parts with delimiters

PHP
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$myVar="There's Something About <b>Mobile</b> with [COLOR="Red"]<startDelimiter>[/COLOR]Max[COLOR="red"]</endDelimiter>[/COLOR] 
Wheeler <span class='myClass'>and Myles</span> Eftos";

Let’s suppose I have $myVar like the above.

I like to divide $myVar to 3 parts like the below.

myVar1="There's Something About <b>Mobile</b> with";
myVar2="Max";
myVar3="Wheeler <span class='myClass'>and Myles</span> Eftos";

How can I divide $myVar to myVar1, myVar2 and myVar3 like the above?

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Using ** as the delimiter as an example:

<?php

$myVar = "There's Something About <b>Mobile</b> with **Max** Wheeler <span class='myClass'>and Myles</span> Eftos";

list($myVar1, $myVar2, $myVar3) = explode('**', $myVar);

echo $myVar1 .'<br>';
echo $myVar2 .'<br>';
echo $myVar3 .'<br>';


?>
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Will you only ever have one set of limiter/delimeter ?
Will you be able to control what these are going to be?
Is it likely that there will be orphaned or broken html fragments in the string?
( eg $myVar=“There’s Something About Mobile</h3>…” )
Will the text inside the limiter pairs possibly contain orphaned fragments of html?
(eg “<startDelimiter>Max</b></endDelimiter>”)

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Thank you, centered effect. Your code works fine.

Yes or No.

I am satisfied with centered effect’s code above which works with one set of limiter/delimeter, but if I can use more set of limiter/delimeter, it will be better.

I am sorry, but I don’t understand it exactly.
Anyway I will control it after dividing.

No, there will be no orphaned or broken html.

No, there will be no orphaned fragments or full of html inside the limiter pairs.

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Centred effect changed your delimiters to ** which provided a convenient solution to your problem.

Are you able to influence what the delimeters are going to be? (or are you reading a string coming from a 3rd party - where you have to sort out what you are given?)

Because Centred effects solution conveniently had start and end delimeters which are the same unlike your example (“<startDelimiter>” and “</endDelimiter>”) it can also be used to split up the string n times.

If this does it for you, then that is really great news and you got a simple solution - but it does not match the question you asked, so I thought I might dig a bit deeper - that is all I meant.

Anyhow, maybe you will be able to pose a more realistic example in the future if it does not work out for you - the bits about fragmented and orphaned html tags comes from bitter experience of doing the same thing I am afraid …