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 :)

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