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

>From the manual preg_split Returns an array containing substrings of subject split along boundaries matched by pattern. since you dont have any borders, this is unlikely to help you.... the only was i can see to do it is a quite long way $mydate = "20031202"; $date = array(); preg_match("/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/", $mydate, $date); list($x, $y, $d, $m) = $date; echo $d." / ".$m." / ".$y ."\n"; Mike On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:15, Tom wrote: > I have noted the "'s. > Could you send me a complete piece of code, please? > I cannot for the life of me get it to work, at all. > > Mike wrote: > > >list ($a, $b, $c) = preg_split ("/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/"); > > > >note the "'s > > > > > > > >>list ($a, $b, $c) = preg_split (/(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/); > >> > parse error, unexpected '/', expecting ')' > >> > >> > > > > > > >