getting date from 0900

[Anon]

I know this is probably pretty simple, but I just can't wrap my mind around this. I want to split the 4 digit date in a file name (0900_something_something.txt). I guess I'm tired.

Ron

[Anon]

4 digit date? totally clueless of what you mean?

like have the file called

2000_08_31.txt

or unix time?

[Anon]

well this is a hack - but it should work:

<?

$string = '0900_something_something.txt';
for($i = 0 ; $i < 2 ; ++$i){
$dateA .= $string[$i];
}

for($i = 2 ; $i < 4 ; ++$i){
$dateB .= $string[$i];
}

echo $dateA.'-'.$dateB;

?>

I double checked this and it worked 😮)

[Anon]

miester,

Thanks. The $string[] argument was the ticket. Where can I find more information on $string[],$argv[] and others like that. Can't find them doing a search. I'm not even sure what they are classified as.

Thanks again.

Ron

[Anon]

Not sure - I was just sitting at my desk one day with a problem which required my to replace letters in a string with <IMG>'s that represented each letter (the images were characters of letters - looonnnggg story). I thought "hey can I run through a string in a for loop just like C?", tried it, and sure enough it worked!

About argc and argv[] they both work just like in C - so I would just read up on those in whatever C book you have.