On Jul 24, 2003, "Dan Joseph" claimed that: |Hi, | | Just looking for an opinion on how you would do this... | | Let's say I have a number: 12800001924 | | The rules call for removing "1280+", meaning remove 128 and all 0's that |come after it, until you run into another number. | | In the end, it would leave 1924, and everything else on the beginning would |be gone. | | How would you setup your logic for this? | |-Dan Joseph
If you know that all numbers are the same number of digits, I'd just do $newNumber = oldNumber - 12800000000; Otherwise, as the released enlisted man I am, I'd just follow the Captain. Jeff -- Registered Linux user #304026. "lynx -source http://jharris.rallycentral.us/jharris.asc | gpg --import" Key fingerprint = 52FC 20BD 025A 8C13 5FC6 68C6 9CF9 46C2 B089 0FED Responses to this message should conform to RFC 1855. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php