On May 2, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Stut wrote:
Richard Lynch wrote:
On Wed, May 2, 2007 4:55 am, Lester Caine wrote:
Fredrik Thunberg wrote:
Lester Caine skrev:
Can someone with a few more working grey cells prompt me with the
correct command to split a string.
The entered data is names, but I need to split the text up to the
first space or comma into one string, and the rest of the string
into
a second. It's the 'first either space or comma' that eludes me at
the
moment :(
In know it's probably obvious, but it always is when you know the
answer.
$myString = "John Doe";
$pos = strpos($myString, " ") < strpos($myString, ",") ?
strpos($myString, " ") : strpos($myString, ",");
$part1 = substr($myString, 0, $pos);
$part2 = substr($myString, $pos);
I'm glad I asked now, that is a lot nicer than trying to get the
preg_split
thing working :)
Hnmmm. Okay, I'll take a shot at it:
$answer = preg_split('|[, ]|', $myString);
var_dump($answer);
Will give more than 2 parts for strings containing both or multiples.
Now please irradiate your hands.
This won't: $answer = preg_split('/(?:,|\s)+/', $myString);
At least not in my tests.
Ed
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