note 47863 deleted from function.substr by aidan

From: Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:40:34 +0000
Subject: note 47863 deleted from function.substr by aidan
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Note Submitter: ebe at solidgrooves dot com ---- (minor tweak, added the $j++;) Here's a useful algorithm for parsing page ranges. $pages = '34, 35, 36, 38-40, 93, 126'; $pageslen = strlen($pages); for ($i=0; $i<$pageslen; $i++) {if (ereg('[0-9]', $pages{$i})) {$numbuff = $numbuff.$pages{$i};} elseif ($pages{$i} == ',') {$page[] = $numbuff; $numbuff = '';} elseif ($pages{$i} == '-') {$j = 0; $range[$j][0] = $numbuff; $numbuff = ''; $i++; do { if (ereg('[0-9]',$pages{$i})) {$numbuff = $numbuff.$pages{$i};} $i++; } while ($pages{$i} != ','); $range[$j][1] = $numbuff; $numbuff = ''; $j++; } } $page[] = $numbuff; $page[] gives you the singles, $range[][] gives you the ranges.

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