On Wed, May 2, 2007 4:55 am, Lester Caine wrote:
> Fredrik Thunberg wrote:
>> Lester Caine skrev:
>>> Can someone with a few more working grey cells prompt me with the
>>> correct command to split a string.
>>>
>>> The entered data is names, but I need to split the text up to the
>>> first space or comma into one string, and the rest of the string
>>> into
>>> a second. It's the 'first either space or comma' that eludes me at
>>> the
>>> moment :(
>>>
>>> In know it's probably obvious, but it always is when you know the
>>> answer.
>>
>> $myString = "John Doe";
>>
>> $pos = strpos($myString, " ") < strpos($myString, ",") ?
>> strpos($myString, " ") : strpos($myString, ",");
>>
>> $part1 = substr($myString, 0, $pos);
>> $part2 = substr($myString, $pos);
>
> I'm glad I asked now, that is a lot nicer than trying to get the
> preg_split
> thing working :)
Hnmmm. Okay, I'll take a shot at it:
$answer = preg_split('|[, ]|', $myString);
var_dump($answer);
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