help needed on string functions

[Anon]

I'm trying to work out a little script which will do the following - and I'm at loss which function to use.

a) check if string $whatever contains {jan, feb, mar... etc - all the months}
b) return the month string it has found in a variable, say $month
c) stick the last four characters of $whatever in the variable $year

I've had a look in the function reference, but I keep blowing my mind on regular expressions and strip functions.

Thanks for any help!!

[Anon]

Can you format $whatever to be more uniform? if so, is it formatted as
Month day, year?

If yes, do
$month = strtok($whatever, " ");
$day = trim(strstr(strtok($whatever, ","), " "));
$year = strtok(",");

The $day is a little hackish...work out something better if you want.

[Anon]

i think this does about everything u asked for, so play around with this for a bit

$months = array("january", "february", "march", "april", "may", "june", "july", "august", "september", "october", "november", "december");

$whatever = "the current month is november, and the current year is 2000";

for($i = 0; $i < count($months); $i++){
if(strpos($whatever, $months[$i]) != ""){
$year = substr($whatever, strlen($whatever) - 4, 4);
print "$months[$i]";
}
}