Re: Finding the Middle elements of a String

Please don't do this, it *will* break on multibyte strings, as those "arrays" are not based on characters but bytes. On 11 May 2014 20:01:28 BST, Jigar Dhulla <jigar.tidus@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >As long as I know you can consider a string as array in php. Means >$string[0] is "a", $string[1] is "p" and so on. So you can use a >foreach >like : > >foreach($string as $k => $v){ > if($v == ",") $pos[] = $k; >} > >$pos will be an array with values of commas position. > >Note: index starts with 0. So $pos[0] will be 5 and so on. > >Please correct me if I am wrong. I have not tested this or used this >method >anywhere. >On 11-May-2014 11:32 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 ); >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Dave - DealTek >> dealtek@gmail.com >> [db-14] >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> Thanks, Ash