chopping str in half

[Pig]

I have a long string with items seperated by " :: ". I want to take the string, and print half the items in one <td> and the other half in the next <td>.

I ran it through str_replace to replace the :: with <br>, and I can calculate at which item the break should occur, but I don't now how to actually break the string. IE: how can I say find the 3rd occurance of :: and return everything before it?

I checked out preg_replace, but couldn't discern a way to do it.

Thanks much.

[Pig]

btw, I can alter the database format to do this differently, but if there is a convenient way to use what is in place, I'd like to.

[buck2bcr]

You may want to give the explode command a look:

$array_of_stuff = explode("::", $string_to_explode);

Then you have the string in an array. You can do a count the array and then print the first half in one line then the rest on another.

(Not sure if it will explode using the :: as a delimiter, if it doesn't you could use a single : and it should)

HTH

[Pig]

Thank you! don't know why I didn't see that.