Re: Split haystack at nth occurrence of needle?

Brian Dunning wrote:

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.

From your first post, you just want to remove everything after a certain occurrence. I don't understand why explode won't work for you. As in, <? $string = 'one<br>two<br>three<br>four<br>five'; $nthPos = 4; $tmpArr = explode( '<br>', $string ); $newArr = array_slice($tmpArr,0,$nthPos-1); $shortString = implode('<br>',$newArr); ?> A function that would give you the position to truncate from would be shorter. But, I don't seem to be finding that function either. So, the above seems like a solution. Janet

- Brian