Re: Formating a string to telephone format - (123) 456 - 7890

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:19:13AM -0500, Sean Mathews wrote: > This is surely very simple, but Im new. I need to create a function to > format a variable length string to a telephone format. Thus 1234567890 > becomes (123) 456 - 7890, and 1234567 becomes 123 - 4567 etc etc. I havent > been able to find any procedures to copy portions of strings. Please drop > me a hint. An easy way to do that would be to user substr(), it takes 2 or 3 arguments, a string, the position to start the substring(starts at 0) and optionally the length of the string.. so substr("1234567890", 0, 3) would return "123 -- Chris Moyer -- cmoyer@chekinc.com -- PHP Developer -- Chek.com