Function to get content in a particular language when dependant on qTranslate

Function to get content in a particular language when dependant on qTranslate

// Function to get content in a particular language when dependant on qTranslate
// qTranslate plugin for Wordpress: http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/
// Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1853406/simple-regular-expression-to-return-text-from-wordpress-title-qtranslate-plugin

function ynbs_translatethis($content) {
	$regexp = '/<\!--:(\w+?)-->([^<]+?)<\!--:-->/i';
	if(preg_match_all($regexp, $content, $matches)) {
		$output = array();
		$count = count($matches[0]);
		for($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
			$output[$matches[1][$i]] = $matches[2][$i];
		}
		return $output;
	} else {
		echo 'no matches';
	}
}

$post_title = "<!--:en-->English text<!--:--><!--:it-->Italian text<!--:-->";

$string = ynbs_translatethis($post_title);
print $string['en'];
print $string['it'];