Re: Returning part of a string, ereg..

This: ereg("([0-9]{1})-([0-9])-", $f, $regs); What that means is "Capture a single occurance of 0-9, then a hyphen, then capture a single occurance of 0-9 if it is imediately folowing by a hyphen." Try this instead: ([0-9]{1})-([0-9]+)- The "+" means "one or more". So "[0-9]+" is the same as "[0-9]{1,}". For instance, "{x,y}" matches at least x amount of characters, but no more than y amount of characters. Leave y off to match "x or more of the mentioned characters". But don't forget that comma. Regex is incredibly hard until you learn it. Then it doesn't seem hard anymore :) -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. ""Chad Day"" <cday@atpco.com> wrote in message news:NFBBJEHDJOLEGDCDKEGGAEFACBAA.cday@atpco.com... > I'm horrible at regex's, maybe someone can help me out. > > What I'm trying to do is parse a string in the format: number-number-number > (ex. 1-23123-312039128) > > I need to pull that second number, regardless of length > > This code returns nothing: > > $part = ereg("([0-9]{1})-([0-9])-", $f, $regs); > > but > > $part = ereg("([0-9]{1})-([0-9]{1,10})-", $f, $regs); > > will return the number, but I don't want to take a chance and limit it to 10 > characters. I thought the first bit of code would work.. any ideas what is > wrong? > > Thanks, > Chad > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >