Re: Need help with a string

In article <ea9da26c041008100635fdcfe@mail.gmail.com>, Greg Donald wrote: > 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. If i'm not mistaken, preg_split on \d{0,2}:\d{2} -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Tim Van Wassenhove <http://www.timvw.info>