explode split or ?

[Anon]

Yellow!

I've been saving files in the following format: Date(YearMonthDay)+Title.txt (e.g. 20001223Hello_World)

Now I would like to check the first 6 characters against some user input (in order to list e.g. all the files from December 2000)

Is there a possiblility with explode or split or something, not to look for a particular string but to split after a certain number of characters?

Thanks for any help

Johannes Maria

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Green!

You can grab substrings using substr().

Check out the manual.

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$string="James_Bond";
$stringnumbertoo=substr($string,0,5);
// $stringnumbertoo="James" now !