Re: How to strip extra characters off of a string

rdkurth@starband.net wrote:

I need to be able to just extract the number that is right Under blocks in this example it is the number 57070. This was generated by the quota -g groupname command. Disk quotas for group site53 (gid 165):

     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
      /dev/hda4   57070  307201  307200            1146       0       0 

I have tried using some of the string functions like I used $test=strstr ($test, "hda"); $test= substr("$test",7);

Have a look at explode(). You could do something like this: $test=strstr ($test, "hda"); $test= substr("$test",7); $aValues = explode(" ", $test); list($fs, $blocks, $quota, $limit, $rest_of_string) = each ($aValues, 4); Jc