Finding the Middle elements of a String

Hi all, Let's say the string is "apple,cherry,peach,pear" (not an array just a text string) I see that I can use these (strpos & strripos) to search for the first or last "," - but how to I search for the ones in the middle (like third comma or 4th comma)? strpos — Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string strripos — Find the position of the last occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string Thanks in advance ex: $this1 = "apple,cherry,peach,pear"; $findme = ','; $pos = strpos($this1, $findme); $pos2 = strripos($this1, $findme); $showfirst = substr($this1, 0, $pos); $showlast = substr($this1, $pos2+1, 9999 ); -- Thanks, Dave - DealTek dealtek@gmail.com [db-14]