* Thus wrote John Taylor-Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > $P1OC1Q1 = "1¶some text or some comment"; > > echo "<tr><td>Your score is: </td><td>"; $score=split($P1OC1Q1,"¶"); echo > $score[0]."</td></tr>\n"; > > Do I have to go through all that to get score[0] ?
substr($P1OC1Q1, 0, strpos($P1OC1Q1, '¶')-1) That will return every thing to the left of '¶'. and '' if nothing is there without complaining. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure." -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php