Re: Finding numerical values in a string

Dana.Reed@clinicaldatacare.com wrote: > There's probably a more eloquent way to do this, but IF you know the length of the part > before the number you could use substr to return the rest. > So, if all $foo values begin with "notavail" you could use: > if ( $Pid == "notavail".substr($foo,8) ) { > ... > } Clean way would be e.g. preg_match("/(\d+)$/", $string, $matches); $num = $matches[1]; -- | Heikki Korpela | heikki.korpela@wapit.com | tel. +358 50 3838 609 | | Software Developer, Wapit Finland | http://www.wapit.com | -- "/dev/clue was linked to /dev/null"