Re: Best way to split a string of numbers into segments.

preg_match should do it... $mydate = "20031202"; $date = array(); preg_match("/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/", $mydate, $date); print_r($date); substr would be much quicker though On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:14, Tom wrote: > Hi. > > Is there an easy, non expensive way to do the perl-equivalent of: > $date=20031202; > ($year, $month, $day) = ($date =~ /(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/; > > I looked through the preg_* functions online, but couldn't see anything > to help me. Am I stuck with substr() :P ? > > Thanks.