Re: substrings

On Sunday 25 April 2004 01:00 pm, David T-G wrote: > Hi, all -- > > I must be having a brain fart as well as going blind because I can't find > in the manual how to do this. > > Given a string like #AABBCC or #112233 how do I get the > > 2nd-3rd > 4th-5th > 6th-7th > > position substrings so I can break out the red, green, and blue values? php.net/substr? > All of the regular expressions seem to hinge on matching a separator, and > the closest thing seems to be a > > preg_match(".(..)(..)(..)",$color,$colors) ; > $r = $colors[1] ; > $g = $colors[2] ; > $b = $colors[3] ; > > but it just seems like I should be able to return a list like > > ($r,$g,$b) = fn(operands,$color) ; > > or so. > > > TIA & HAND > > :-D -- Evan Nemerson evan@coeus-group.com http://coeusgroup.com/en