Re: Split haystack at nth occurrence of needle?
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:42:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Split haystack at nth occurrence of needle? | ||
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* Thus wrote Janet Valade:
> 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);
and the short version:
$shortString = implode('<br>', explode('<br>', $string, $nth));
Curt
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