[Resolved] parsing string for int value

[Mucello]

I remember reading somewhere that there is a function that will parse a string and extract the integer value. Does anyone know what that might be?

I have a string = "10 m" or "2 m"
I'd like to parse only the 10 or only the 2 or whatever the first integer is. The integer and the text will always be separated by a space, by the way.

Does such a function already exist? Or should I just start writing my own?

Thanks,
Mark 🙂

[DeltaRho2K]

Check the php Manual for the explode() function.

[Mucello]

Excellent... that should do the trick🙂 Thanks so much!!
-Mark

[DeltaRho2K]

No problem.

If you wanted a little more detail (like the offset of the first character of the secong value in the array), etc... in case you have varying length integers, and this matters, then you may want to look into thepreg_split() function.

I personally have had to do this, but for the most part, explode() almost always does the trick for me.