Php Question

ChicoMendez

i know this is probably not the best place.but here goes.

i have a variable

$variable = "one;two;three;four;five";

how do i go about getting the numbers out seperately...


tnx

aidan_walsh

Use an array in its place? But in the case that this isn't possible, take a look into the string Tokenizer.

ChicoMendez

doodle_sketch wrote:

Use an array in its place? But in the case that this isn't possible, take a look into the string Tokenizer.

Cheers, cant use an array as "one;two;three;four;five" will be read from a database field.

Ph3n0m

Try this

[PHP]
<?php
// Example 1
$variable = "one;two;three;four;five";
$pieces = explode(";", $variable);
echo $pieces[0]; // one
echo $pieces[1]; // two
echo $pieces[2]; // three
echo $pieces[3]; // four
echo $pieces[4]; // five

?>
[/PHP]

or the following example allows you to name each of the results you will explode (handy if you know exactly how many results will be placed into the variable

[PHP]
<?php
$data = "one;two;three;four;five";
list($first, $second, $third, $fourth, $fifth) = explode(";", $data);
echo $first; // one
echo $second; // two
echo $third; // three
echo $fourth; // four
echo $fifth; // five

?>
[/PHP]

kenmc

yeah tokenizer is the way to go all right....

$string = "one;two;three;four;five";
$tok = strtok($string,";");
while ($tok) {
echo "Word=$tok<br>";
$tok = strtok(";");
}
can put that into an array then instead of printing it out... or whatever you wanna do