Re: Manipulating text

["Julien Bonastre" <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quite right..


BUTTTTTTTT:

and I quote:

> >> > $variable = "play_time";
> >> >
> >> > how may I remove "play_" from $variable and just have $variable equal
> >> > to
> >> > "time"?


To me, that is asking to strip or remove the string "play_" from the string 
"play_time"


Am I wrong? Especially when reinforced with "and just have the $variable 
equal to 'time'?"



Sorry, I wasn't aiming to create a problem or disorder, but I was merely 
stating the way I thought most effective to get the end result it seemed 
that at the time you wanted from that question. Sure an array is ONE 
possibility, while we're on the same track I could also convert the string 
to binary and let you manipulate it that way.. Hey same result, just 
different method.

Glad to know you've found a way to get around it anyway, thats what these 
lists are for..

;-)


Regards

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Piggott (PHP)" <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Julien Bonastre" <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 8:43 PM
Subject: Re:  Manipulating text


> There may some merit in an array for a response --- I didn't say what I
> was going to do with this once I had my single word.  Ron
>
> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:33 +1000, Julien Bonastre wrote:
> > Alternatively you may again use a regex statement
> >
> >
> > [Aside]
> > Is it just me? Or does nobody know how to use or of the existence of 
> > Regular
> > Expressions??
> > Why does nobody suggest them???
> > I find them not only a God send, but more of a primitive form of God[or
> > Allah/Buddah/<insert deity here>]'s very first most useful creation ever. 
> > I
> > find water less important than that of Regular Expressions..
> >
> > Ok so I have exaggerated as usual, but do you get my point??
> > blah!
> > [/Aside]
> >
> > $str = "this_word";
> > $clean_str = preg_replace("/.*_([\w]+)$/i","$1",$str);
> >
> > That would work as well...
> >
> >
> > Plus the advantage is that you don't return with an array, not that 
> > arrays
> > are all that bad, my first child will be named Arrarius..
> >
> > Ok.. more bullcrap..
> >
> > haha, nevertheless, depending on the situation, you may WANT to have an
> > array returned in which will simply be exploding, or spliting the 
> > elements
> > of the string seperated by the "_" underscore character in an array..
> >
> > If you are simply wanting to strip any word before and including the
> > underscore character and return with a "clean" string, then my method is
> > great for that.
> >
> > I just seem to have read your question and obviously intepreted it
> > differently than the others??
> >
> >
> >
> > Let me know what you prefer.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should 
> > only
> > be considered if: ... a.. You have no users, and nobody ever visits your
> > server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP
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> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Ron Piggott (PHP)" <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <amol@xxxxxxxxxx>; "PHP DB" <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 2:13 PM
> > Subject: Re:  Manipulating text
> >
> >
> > > Thanks for telling me the 'explode' command.  Ron
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 08:07 +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 21:25 -0500, Ron Piggott (PHP) wrote:
> > >> > If I have
> > >> >
> > >> > $variable = "play_time";
> > >> >
> > >> > how may I remove "play_" from $variable and just have $variable 
> > >> > equal
> > >> > to
> > >> > "time"?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> If you are hinting at '_' as a delimitter, you can use explode(). 
> > >> Learn
> > >> more about it here:
> > >> http://php.net/explode
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >> ah
> > >>
> > >
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