Re: Split string

On May 2, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Stut wrote:

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Wed, May 2, 2007 4:55 am, Lester Caine wrote:

Fredrik Thunberg wrote:

Lester Caine skrev:

Can someone with a few more working grey cells prompt me with the correct command to split a string. The entered data is names, but I need to split the text up to the first space or comma into one string, and the rest of the string into a second. It's the 'first either space or comma' that eludes me at the moment :( In know it's probably obvious, but it always is when you know the answer.

$myString = "John Doe"; $pos = strpos($myString, " ") < strpos($myString, ",") ? strpos($myString, " ") : strpos($myString, ","); $part1 = substr($myString, 0, $pos); $part2 = substr($myString, $pos);

I'm glad I asked now, that is a lot nicer than trying to get the preg_split thing working :)

Hnmmm. Okay, I'll take a shot at it: $answer = preg_split('|[, ]|', $myString); var_dump($answer);

Will give more than 2 parts for strings containing both or multiples. Now please irradiate your hands.

This won't: $answer = preg_split('/(?:,|\s)+/', $myString); At least not in my tests. Ed