string help

[Anon]

Hi,

From the sentance
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"

I want to search for "fox" and then get a little bit before and a little bit after so something like

"ick brown fox jumped ov" is returned.

How can I accomplish this?

Thanks

G WiZZ

[mithril]

&nbsp;&nbsp;<?php
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// # chars before and after search string
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$precede = 10;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$postcede = 4;

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$str = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog";
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$srch = "fox";

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$temp = stristr($str,$srch);
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$pos = strlen($str)-strlen($temp);

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;echo substr($str, ($pos - $precede), (($pos + strlen($srch)) + $postcede));
&nbsp;&nbsp;?>

For further details regarding any sort of string manipulations you should really read the String Functions section of the manual.

-geoff