On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, dealTek <dealtek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Let's say the string is "apple,cherry,peach,pear" (not an array just a text string)
>
> I see that I can use these (strpos & strripos) to search for the first or last "," - but how to I search for the ones in the middle (like third comma or 4th comma)?
>
> strpos — Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string
>
> strripos — Find the position of the last occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> ex:
>
> $this1 = "apple,cherry,peach,pear";
> $findme = ',';
> $pos = strpos($this1, $findme);
> $pos2 = strripos($this1, $findme);
>
>
> $showfirst = substr($this1, 0, $pos);
> $showlast = substr($this1, $pos2+1, 9999 );
Consider using explode().
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