Re: php equivalent for cut

The closest you get to 'cut' in PHP is probably the 'explode' command. It splits a string by a delimiter like 'cut' does, only it dumps the results into an array: $etcpasswd = "username:passwd:123:345::/home/username:/bin/sh"; $pwdarr = explode(":", $etcpasswd); echo $pwdarr[4]; That should give you the 5th 'column' of the $etcpasswd string. OR.. you could do this: list($username, $passwd, $userid, $groupid, $something, $homedir, $defshell) = explode(":", $etcpasswd); That'll take the array returned from explode() and put it into the variables used in $list. It's been ages since I've messed with *nix /etc/passwd files, so forgive any inaccuracies in the field names I've used above. You get the idea though. Good luck Michelle! -TG = = = Original message = = = Hello, I am searching for the right equivalent for "cut -d : -f5" but it must work with php4. Since the website <http://www.php.net/manual/de/> has no seperated manuals for php4 and php5, it is not easy to find the right stuff. Greetings and good evening Michelle ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.