How to do simple string parsing?

binarylime

okay...

say i have :

$date = "4 23 2003";

Now, I want to extract each of the three parts of the above variable into :

$month = "4";
$date = "23";
$year = "2003";

How the heck do I go about parsing the original $date variable? Is there a simple php command to do so or will I need to write a while loop to handle stuff between spaces?

Thanks,

ir4z0r

list($month, $day, $year) = explode(" ", $date);

that's the shortest I guess

leetcrew

<?php

$date = "4 23 2003";

/***************************
//
//	getting the month
//
***************************/


for ( $i = 0; $i <= strlen ($date) - 8; $i++)
{
	$month = trim ($month . $date[$i] );
}

printf ("The month is: '%s' <br> \n", $month);



/***************************
//
//	getting the day
//
***************************/



for ( $i = 1; $i <= strlen ($date) - 6; $i++)
{
	$day = trim ($day . $date[$i] ) ;
}

printf ("The day is: '%s' <br> \n", $day);


/***************************
//
//	getting the year
//
***************************/



for ( $i = 4; $i <= strlen ($date) - 1; $i++)
{
	$year = trim ( $year . $date[$i] ) ;
}

printf ("The year is: '%s' <br> \n", $year);


?>

this code might help you