title: Garbled Text and Regex in PHP
body: <p>So I have string (this is a small snippet) of data which looked similar to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>L L L LIL5LSOLSLQLL AL
  
  BL
  
  B6LLALBLYLL69L6KL6L6L7LLLLLLHZLMhuLPLHILHLHLILILQZLSoLULWLXL4L4L&gt;LZLL
  
  L
  
  LoLzLVLVLLLLLLLDLeLkLLaLLLLLLL5M    5string1:string2:(RANDOM):string3:(RANDOM)R&lt;baseversion&gt;&lt;version&gt;0000000297000000025309458093771&lt;version&gt;&lt;baseversion&gt;  BLYLL69L6KL6L6L7LLLL
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I wish to extract all strings which conform to the pattern:</p>
  
  <pre><code>string1:string2:[A-Za-z0-9]:string3:[A-Za-z0-9]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>NOTE: There are many throughout the text; but only one can be found per line break, although not on EVERY line.</p>
  
  <p>Any guidance would be greatly appriciated :)</p>