[PHP-DB] Re: explode string variable

[Joel Colombo]

or just :

$word = "James-Martin-Smith"
$word_break = Array();
$first_dash = strpos($word, '-');
if ($first_dash !== false) {
$word_break[0] = substr($word,0,$first_dash+1);
$word_break[1] = substr($word,$first_dash+1,strlen($word));
}







"André Sannerholt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi everyone!
>
> Does anybody know how to "stop" an "explosion" of a string: Let me
explain:
>
> $variable_aray=explode('-', $variable);
>
> I want the variable to be devided in only two other ones! If for example:
>
> $variable="Willy-Brandt-Platz-5"
>
> I want to have an array that looks like this:
>
> $variable_array[0] should be "Willy"
> $variable_array[1] should be "Brandt-Platz"
>
>
> Regards
>
> André
>
>
>



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[PHP-DB] Re: explode string variable

[Fredrik de Vibe]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (André Sannerholt) writes:
> Does anybody know how to "stop" an "explosion" of a string: Let me explain:
> 
> $variable_aray=explode('-', $variable);
> 
> I want the variable to be devided in only two other ones! If for example:
> 
> $variable="Willy-Brandt-Platz-5"
> 
> I want to have an array that looks like this:
> 
> $variable_array[0] should be "Willy"
> $variable_array[1] should be "Brandt-Platz"

I guess you could use the "proper" regexp functions, like e.g.

  preg_match("/^(\w+)-(.*?)-\d/", $variable, $matches)

then $matches[1] and $matches[2] should (haven't tested) contain what
you want...

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