note 53890 added to function.sscanf

If you just wants filter out information between two parts of a string, i used the following, it works better for me then the sscanf function. <?php function scanstr($zoekstr,$part1,$part2) { $firstpos=strpos ($zoekstr, $part1)+strlen($part1); $lastpos=strpos ($zoekstr, $part2); $scanresult=substr ($zoekstr, $firstpos, $lastpos-$firstpos); return($scanresult); } echo scanstr ("var1=hello&var2=test&var3=more","var2=","&var3"); ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sscanf.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+53890 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53890&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53890&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53890&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53890&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53890&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+53890&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+53890&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php