Jim Lucas wrote:
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 :(
This should work for you.
$myString = "Here is my first, attempt!";
$answer = preg_split('|[, ]|', $myString, 2);
Ok having re-read the preg_split manual page and now found a nice crib sheet
for 'pattern' I can understand that. Although it is not obvious from the
manual what gets returned if there are two comma's or spaces. I would have
expected I think that everything after the second match would be lost? As you
only asked to return the first 2 strings, but the last string does contain all
the remaining characters :) ( There is a note about it in the comments, but it
would be nice to include that sort of fine detail in the main explanation.
I've already found the other problem with this simple search selection.
Originally I just wanted to do "Jones,A" and the above would work fine. But
some customers said 'We are used to "Jones A" in X - can you do that'. Of
cause anything is possible in software, hence the original question, except
where they have actually typed 'JONES A' as the Surname ;)
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