Help needed. Probably not to hard for pro

[onlinehoster]

I have a string named $id which for instance could be TORK34 . What i need is code to grab all text before any numbers and put it into $id2

So if $id was TORK34 then $id2 would be TORK

I really need this code and would be most greatful if someone could work it out.

THanks

[Sxooter]

$id = "TORK34";
eregi("[[:alpha:]]+",$id,$reg);
print $reg[0];

[insane]

You might want to use regular expressions to do this:

$id = "TORK34";

ereg("^([a-zA-Z]+)([0-9]+)$",$id,$regs);

The ereg()-function compares the string in $id to a search pattern, in this case "^{([a-zA-Z]+)([0-9]+)$",} which means: "find 1 or more letters from a-z or A-Z and then find 1 or more numbers from 0-9". The parenthesis are there to save the data in an array. The $regs-array looks likethis after calling the function:

$regs[0] = "TORK";
$regs[1] = "34";

which is what you need.

I might have gotten the search-pattern wrong, but try it. You might want to get into regular expressions a bit anyway, since they are a powerful tool.

[onlinehoster]

Thank you very much! This is great. Thanks again