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Thanks dave for our comments on the use of the list, and sorry for sending this mail to your adress the first time around. When we're at it: If a question has already been answered, please do not follow up with a new reply that doesn't add important information/corrections. Regards Øyvind On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, David Freeman wrote: > > G'day Scott > > > Just curious, is there a PHP function that will break up the > > string for us? > > I'm not specifically having a go at you but more observing that some > people use this list as a first line of question rather than doing some > work themselves. > > Assuming that I didn't already know what function provides this > capability I could do the following: > > 1. Go to the online manual at http://www.php.net/manual/ > > 2. Since my problem deals with strings I would then go to the string > functions page of the function reference section of the manual. > > 3. I would then look through the various functions listed here, each of > which includes a short description of what the function does. > > 4. I would notice that within the first dozen entries there's a > function called explode with a description of "Split a string by > string". > > 5. I would guess that this explode function might be fairly close to > what I'm looking for and load it's page. > > 6. I would glance at some of the user contributed notes and see > examples of using explode and even some pitfalls to be aware of in it's > use. > > At this point, my question is answered and I've managed to find out > things in the process. If I've been paying attention I've probably > gained a small appreciation of a few other string related functions that > I didn't know about and filed it away for future use too. > > Just a thought... > > CYA, Dave > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >