Re: preg_split
| From: | Michael Dearman | Date: | Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:24:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: preg_split | ||
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Thomas Holton wrote:
>
> sorry, the first email had a couple of errors in it, this is the correct
> one.
>
> Hi,
> I am getting a confusing error message when i try to do the following:
>
> i have a string, read from a file:
> 1234 <a href="#1234> 4321 </a> e- 1231
>
> it is succesfully read in the var, $inp[$ix] using the file cmd:
> $inp = file("infile.txt");
>
> i want to divide this string up into two vars, splitting the string at the
> <a tag, like this:
>
> $s_arr = preg_split('<a',$inp[$ix]);
>
$s_arr = preg_split('/<a/',$inp[$ix])
^ ^
you have to use pattern match delimiters.
Don't have to be /, but most common. It was
reading < as the first delim.
Mike D.