Re: Split haystack at nth occurrence of needle?

From: Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:31:15 +0000
Subject: Re: Split haystack at nth occurrence of needle?
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<? $string = 'one<br>two<br>three<br>four<br>five'; $nthPos = 4; $tmpArr = explode( '<br>', $string ); $nthString = $tmpArr[($nthPos - 1)]; ?>
Thanks Chris, that works great, but it's not doing what I want. I'm just trying to get the position of the 3rd occurrence (for example) of '<br>'. So I'm looking for a function that will return the value 19, given the above example string. - Brian

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