Re: Need help with a string

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:38:23 -0500, Brent Clements <bclem@imaginative-enterprises.com> wrote: > Given the following string: > > $textString = "Share A Dream Come True Parade 3:00 SpectroMagic Parade 9:00, 11:00 Wishes? > nighttime spectacular 10:00" > > I need to break the string up into pieces where as > > $string[1] = "Share A Dream Come True Parade 3:00" > $string[2] = "SpectroMagic Parade 9:00, 11:00" > $string[3] = "Wishes? nighttime spectacular 10:00" > > Granted this is pretty easy because I could just search for this stuff and break it up, but the > string above can actually be different each time, for instance, next time it could be: > > $textString = "Share A Dream Come True Parade 3:00, 5:00 SpectroMagic Parade 9:00, 11:00 > Wishes? nighttime spectacular 10:00" > > I think my main issue is that I don't know how to keep the , XX:XX part combined with the > previous part of the string. preg_match_all() is what you want to use. You can easily match everything up to the time since it's formed with a ":00" at the end each time. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/