Seperate first word from rest of string

[triffik]

Quick problem.

A string of text is sent to me in the variable $message from another script on another server that I have no control over.

The first word of the string $message can be anywhere between 1 and 6 characters long. It is always a number

The string might be presented as

"15 message for joe"
or
" 120 message for david"

Therefore, there might be a space before the first word.

Can someone suggest a quick way of isolating the first number from the rest of the string. I want to end up with two strings... $number and $restofmessage

Thanks

Joe

[YappyDog]

Use trim() to get rid of any spaces at the beginning and end of the string.

Use strstr() to find the position of the first space.

Use substr() twice to split the string into the number and the rest.

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[triffik]

thanks

was having a blonde day!

appreciated mate!