Re: Finding the Middle elements of a String

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, dealTek <dealtek@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ); Consider using explode(). -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/