Re: split() function

You don't need a character class here (signified by [] brackets); you can use $line = split('&|//', $field); As you can see, this is identical to ReDucTor's solution, except that the brackets are omitted. Character classes only work for single characters, not multiple character strings like '//'. - steve At 3:21 PM -0400 7/4/01, David A Dickson wrote:

Thanks for replying ReDucTor but that didn't work either. I tried $line = explode("[(&|//)]", $field); and $line = explode("[(&|////)]", $field); and $line = explode("[(&|\/\/)]", $field); with no success. Any other ideas? On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 04:50:29 ReDucTor wrote:

$line = explode("[(&|//)]",$field); should work, or you might have to put //// but thats not \ so you shouldn't need to comment out the slash... ----- Original Message ----- From: David A Dickson <daviddickson@lycos.com> To: php-general <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 4:37 AM Subject: [PHP] split() function

I have a comma separated spreadsheet with one field that contains two

dates. the dates are formatted as dd/mm/yy and separated by either '&' or '//' ex:3/12/92&28/1/93 or 3/12/92//28/1/93

Problem: I need to split the field at the '&' or '//' separator but if I

do

split('[&//]', $field); it splits on the '/' not the '//'. Can I do this in one function call to split() or will I have to do it

twice?

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