Re: Help on preg_split

Jim wrote: > Hi! > Could someboy please help me with this simple task (at least I though it > would be simple): > I need to split a string with two dates in into two datestrings, and there > might be whatever between the dates, e.g. > $datestring = "010101aaaaa020202", or $dateting = " 010101+++++++++020202 > " > Then I thought that > $date = preg_split("/[D]+/",trim($datestring)) > whould do the job, but it didn't. > Why? and how should it be? > Many thanks in advance! > br Jim How about going for a different approch. // Trim it as you did $dateString = trim($dateString); // Select the first 6 chars as $date1... $date1 = substr($dateString, 0, 6); // ... and the last 6 as $date2 $date2 = substr($dateString, -6);