Re: RegExp help..

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:10, John Vanderbeck wrote: > I really wish I could figure these darn things out :) I have a task I > need to do, and i'm certain I could do this easily with a regexp.. > > I have a file name in the format MMDDYY-*.txt...I need to parse it to > determine if the month and year matches a specified month and year. > Day is irrelevant > > Can any of your regexp wizards help me? A non-regexp solution that comes to mind is to use substr() to extract the bits you want from the filename, assuming the filenames to be always as your example. So: $month = substr($filename,0,2); $year = substr($filename,4,2); Then you have the string values for month and year in the respective variables. -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA