Re: formatting a string

Hi, Sunday, April 25, 2004, 11:17:16 AM, you wrote: AB> hi... AB> i have a string i want to pull out of a database (mysql). the column name is AB> Phone1 and it is a 10 digit phone number. the raw string coming out of the AB> table column would look like this: 1234567890 AB> what i want to do is format the string on display like this: (123)456-7890 AB> but dont quite know how to start with that. what function(s) would i use for AB> that? Try this: $phone = '1234567890'; $newphone = preg_replace('/(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d)/','(\1)\2-\3',$phone); echo $newphone.'<br>'; -- regards, Tom