Re: Formatting phone numbers?
| From: | Rob Ellis | Date: | Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:07:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Formatting phone numbers? | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 06:11:57PM -0400, John W. Holmes wrote:
> Rob Ellis wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:31:09PM -0500, BOOT wrote:
> >>
> >>I'm looking for a way to take a 7 digit number and put it into xxx-xxxx
> >>format.
> >>
> >>So basically the logic is to count 3 characters into $number and insert a
> >>"-" there.
> >
> >substr_replace($string, '-', 3, 0);
>
> Won't that replace the number, though, not insert the dash?
No, it does the right thing. The last 0 is the number of
characters to replace.
- Rob