Re: string questions

Use function explode, preg_split, split to split the text string. $pieces = explode(" ", $address); echo $pieces[0]; // will output 4455 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Wong Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 1:12 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] string questions On Saturday 03 August 2002 00:35, webmaster wrote: > I know there has to be an easy way to do this, but I just can't find the > answer. I need to strip out the first part of a text string. I've > figured out out to strip out the last part of a string using the > following: > > $address = (4455 N. 45th St.); > > $test = strstr($address, " "); > echo $test; > > The variable $test returns N. 45th St. without the 4455. Is there a way > to reverse this so I can just return 4455? Use strpos() to find the position of the first space then substr() to extract from beginning to the space. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* The San Diego Freeway. Official Parking Lot of the 1984 Olympics! */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.phpGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com