string parsing

[Anon]

I have a string in the format "EC/1999/MJC/00105" and would like to extract the "1999" part of it (this number changes). Is there a nicer way of doing this than using a loop to select the required characters?

[Anon]

Try this

<?
$string="EC/1999/MJC/00105";
$str_array=explode("/",$string);

echo $str_array[1];
?>

Hth

JBL