formating a string
| From: | James Savage | Date: | Sat, 12 May 2007 19:16:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | formating a string | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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i have a 12 digit code that i want to format as follows xxxx-xxxx-xxxx it is
all numbers i tried using substr() to format it in this fassion
$code = abcdwxyz8765;
$string = array();
$string[] = substr($code,1,4);
$string[] = substr($code,5,8);
$string[] = substr($code9,12);
echo $string[0],'-',$string[1],'-',$string[2];
OUTPUT SHOULD BE : abcd-wxyz-5678
I GET : -wxyz678-5678
Any help?