Thanks, it worked like a charm ;)
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:39 AM
To: Mike; PHP List
Subject: Re: [PHP] String Manipulation
I tested this out with success.
$string = ereg_replace('(.*(\(|\[)|(\)|\]).*)', '', $string);
###################
// Here is actual working code
$string1 = "(Something) - is wrong with me";
$string2 = "something - (is wrong with me)";
$string3 = "something - (is wrong with me";
$string4 = "[something] - is wrong with me";
$string5 = "something - [is wrong with me]";
$string6 = "something - [is wrong with me";
for ($i = 1; $i < 7; $i++)
{
$data = "string" . $i;
$data = ereg_replace('(.*(\(|\[)|(\)|\]).*)', '', ${$data}); // the
magic
line. feed it the string(s).
print "<b>$i)</b> $data<br>";
}
###################
Jim Grill
Support
Web-1 Hosting
http://www.web-1hosting.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: [PHP] String Manipulation
> Hello all,
> I know that this has probably been discussed before and that you will
> tell me to go through all the back messages on the list but I really
> don't have time to do that because I am on a really tight schedule,
but
> I was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how to pull
> some information out of a string. I have something like this:
> (Something) - is wrong with me
> or
> something - (is wrong with me)
> or
> something - (is wrong with me
>
> what I need to know how to do is take the stuff that is inside the
> Brackets (or partial brackets) and put them into another string
> the way I am currently doing it is like this:
> Variable names have been changed per my boss(My Boss wanted me to
change
> them for some reason)
> <?
> $parenpos = strpos($tartist,")");
> $bracketpos = strpos($tartist,"]");
> if($parenpos){
> $artist = trim(substr($tartist,0,$parenpos));
> $title = trim(substr($tartist,$parenpos+3));
> $secondparenpos = strpos($title,"(");
> $secondbracketpos = strpos($tartist,"[");
> $title = trim(substr($title,0,$secondparenpos));
> }elseif($bracketpos){
> $artist = chop(substr($tartist,1,$bracketpos-1));
> $title = trim(substr($tartist,$bracketpos+3));
> }
> ?>
>
> I know that there has to be a shorter version of this, can anyone help
> me out with it?
>
> Thank You,
> Mike
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