Output values separated by ;

Anon

Hi,
I'm doing a small PHP script were I want to print some values and I just can't figure out how to get the right values.
The string I have as an input look like this: 1;2;3;4;5
and I want to choose the values between the ";" For example 1 3 and 5.

It's probably not that hard but I can't really figure it out :-(

Greatful 4 any help =)

Anon

The first thing I would say is use the
explode() function. That will take the items seperated by ";" in your case and create an array. From there, just pull the values out of the array.

$vals = "one;two;three;four;five";
$nums = explode(";", $vals);

Check the manual. It's your freind.

Later on....

Anon

there are a lot of ways you can do that. I'm new to PHP too, and havent heard of the explode(); function. another way you can do it is this:

$var = "1;2;3;4;5";
list($one,$two,$three,$four,$five) = split('[;]', $var);

which is basically the same. the explode() function sounds more efficient in this case, but I'm just trying to offer more perspective.

Anon

Thanks, both works like I wanted.
I'll check the manual in the future =)