On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 21:33 -0500, Eric Butera wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Ron Piggott <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How do I determine the value of tx from this string? > > > > > > page/words_from_the_well_checkout/?tx=8UM53005HH344951T&st=Completed&amt=0.01 > > > > My desired answer is: 8UM53005HH344951T > > > > I am trying to capture the serial number which follows tx= and ends > > immediately before the & > > > > Ron > > > > http://us.php.net/parse_str > > -- > http://www.voom.me | EFnet: #voom > Go regular expressions... /tx=([^\&]+)/ then do a preg_match with the string using the $matches array argument. $matches[1] should be your value. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php