You can use split() or explode().
$string = "1234-5467" ;
list( $before_dash, $after_dash ) = explode( "-", $string ) ;
or
$array = explode( "-", $string ) ;
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Wouldn't it be simpler to just remove the '-'?
>
> $var = str_replace("-","",$var);
>
> Ed
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> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Antti wrote:
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> > How can I take some text before the mark - and after it and put them for
> > example in array. The purpose of this is to read trough mp3 files which
> > are in the form of artist - song.mp3 and put them into a text file so I
> > can put them into mysql db.
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> > antti
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