Re: Help with Strings Please

Nick, Nick wrote:

I have a string like this, read from an html file: ' VALUE="16">' The value could be any number. I am trying to get that number.

If you have that exact string and you want to extract just the number, then a simple regex to delete all non-numeric characters should suffice.

I have this so far, i was hoping someone might tell me how to get that number: <?php $handle = fopen("page.php", "r"); while (!feof($handle)) {

    $buffer .= fgets($handle, 4096);

} fclose($handle); $result = stristr($buffer, 'NAME="c"'); print ("Result:<br />".$result); ?>

Ok, so I don't see ' VALUE="16">' in here anywhere -- I think you need to be a lot more descriptive about the source content and what exactly you want to extract, and provide a few examples, so that we can cover all your bases. Regular Expressions are _probably_ what you need, but you REALLY need to provide a decent description and multiple examples of what you want, otherwise we're just wasting time. --- Justin French http://indent.com.au