delimiter issues

[trooper]

I have a slight problem

I am passing a string (like this Gibraltar#Madagascar#Myanmar#Qatar) and i want to find out if the delimiter (in this case #) is in the string.

At the moment i am trying

if(preg_match("!\$this->delimiter!",$option_values)) 
		{
			$option_values=(($this->delimiter)?explode("$this->delimiter",$option_values):'');
		}

but its not working - it is still returning the whole string of Gibraltar#Madagascar#Myanmar#Qatar instead of exploding it into an array. Now if i hardcode the delimiter like this

if(preg_match("!#!",$option_values)) 
		{
			$option_values=(($this->delimiter)?explode("$this->delimiter",$option_values):'');
		}

its fine. However that is not flexible enough, i want to be able to use a variable name as its a lot more flexible. Anyone got any good pointers ?

thanks

GM

[notionlogic]

oops, my first reply was completely off so I've editted it... 😃

I think the problem is that the reg exp needs to be specified like this:

preg_match("!".$this->delimiter."!",$option_values))

but I could be wrong...it's not unheard of!

Also, just in case you weren't aware...you can use preg_match to grab the contents too

[trooper]

Why didn't i think of that :mad:

Cheers Notionlogic

😃 😃 😃