Hi Kevin,
First thought that comes to mind is explode() so something like :
<?php
$string = '5;6;12;21;36;42';
$count = count(explode(';',$string));
?>
I assume that would work. That explodes it into an array then counts it,
check out :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php
It's a really fun function to play with.
Regards,
Philip Olson
http://www.cornado.com/
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Kevin Connolly wrote:
> Hi,
> I am quite new to PHP scripts and I have run into a little problem with my string!
> I have a string called $numbers which is 5;6;12;21;36;42 (for example, it can be any
>6 numbers between 1 and 42).
> Is there an easy way that I can find out how many numbers there are in the string
>without the five semi-colons??
> I was playing around with count_chars but had no success!
> then i tried converting it to an array and counting the number of elements in the
>array but unfortunatley it put the whole string in as the first element of the array
>and returned a size of 1!
> I would appreciate any help you can give me,
> Cheers,
> Kevin.
>
>
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