Use regular expresions:
<?php
$string = "pid_1_date_2004_10_25"; preg_match ( '/^pid_(.*?)_date_(.*?)$/', $string, $regs );
print_r ($regs);
?>
Shaun wrote:
Hi,
I have a string as follows: pid_1_date_2004_10_25
pid tells me the Project_ID and date tells me the date(!). I need to extract this information from the string so to get the date I need everything after 'date_' as follows:
substr(strstr($key, 'date_'), 4)
However, to get the Project ID I need to extract everything after 'pid_' and everything before 'date_'. Can someone help me with this please as PHP doesn't seem to provide a function for extracting information from a string that occurs before the 'needle'?
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