On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What are you really looking to do? If you're looking to get the words out
> of the string, just explode it into an array and get the elements you want
> from the array.
>
> $str = "apple,cherry,peach,pear";
> $ary = explode(',',$str);
>
> Ken
>
>
> At 02:01 PM 5/11/2014, dealTek 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 );
>>
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>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Dave - DealTek
>> dealtek@xxxxxxxxx
>> [db-14]
>>
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If you don't want to use an array:
$string = 'apple,cherry,peach,pear';
$offset = 0;
while ($offset = strpos($string, ',', $offset+1)) {
echo 'Comma @ offset: ' . $offset . '<br />';
}
