substr weird problem...

[Anon]

i got a very weird problem... here look on this:

$t = "0123456789><a>*987</a>654<b>321</b>";
$tests = strpos($t, "<");
$test = strpos($t, ">", $tests);
print "<br><br>test should be 13 let's see ==>> $test<br><br>";
print "substr($t, $tests+1, $test)<br><br>";
$testing = substr($t, $tests+1, $test);
print "testing ==> $testing";

and that is what i get:

test should be 13 let's see ==>> 13

substr(0123456789>*987654321, 11+1, 13)

testing ==> a>*987654

i'm not suppose to get in the testing only this: "a>" instead of "a>*987654" right??

how come it does that?? does someone know the reason??
Thanks...

[Anon]

the problem is that you are telling "substr(0123456789>*987654321, 11+1, 13" which means: start at position 11+1(12) and go on for 13 chars, right way to do it should be

substr($t, $tests+1, $test-$tests)

at least I think so, I'm not that genius

[Anon]

Thanks andrea