> "William Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:003101c27c3b$ff8c61a0$6401a8c0@;cortez.co.charter.net... > Hey all, > I've been fighting this all night, I need a bit of help. I have a string like. > > #21-935 Item Description: $35.95 > > Where the part # could be 10-2034 a combination of 2 and 3 or 4 digits, and the price could be a combination of 1,2,3 . 2 digits. I want to chop that string into Part # / Description / Price. > > I'd appreciate any help, I know this is probably real simple :) Thanks in advance.
Try: <? $item = '#21-935 Item Description: $35.95'; $all = explode( ' ', $item ); $part_nr = substr( array_shift( $all ), 1 ); $rest = explode( '$', implode( ' ', $all ) ); $description = substr( trim( $rest[0] ), 0, -1 ); $price = $rest[1]; ?> I bet there is a much nicer (and maybe faster way), but this is by far the easiest (it doesn't cost one night) ;-)) One hundred thousand of these iterations took about 2 seconds... Grtz Erwin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
