help with splitting a string

[Spames]

I want to split a string of 84 characters into an array of 14 elements, each containing 6 characters.

example:

string = 123456789123456789 (etc.)

will return

array[0] = 123456;
array[1] = 789123;
array[3] = 456789;

etc....

I've tried this (and several variations)

$split = preg_split(' {6}', $station_data); 

This has to be simple, but I can't get it working right.... GRRRR...

Thanks-
James

[LordShryku]

[man]chunk_split[/man]

If you want an array after that, just explode on the \r\n.

[mtimdog]

or [man]str_split[/man] might work better in your case

[LordShryku]

Originally posted by mtimdog
or [man]str_split[/man] might work better in your case

You'd still have to make it manual unless you're running PHP5...

[mtimdog]

if (!function_exists('str_split')) {
  Function str_split($string, $chunksize=1) {
   preg_match_all('/('.str_repeat('.', $chunksize).')/Uims', $string, $matches)
;
   return $matches[1];
  }
} 

from the man

[LordShryku]

Hrrmmm....I think I'd still chunk split it.

$split = chunk_split($num,6);
$array = explode("\r\n",$split);

[Spames]

str_split is for PHP 5 only, but would have worked perfectly 🙂

chunking then exploding worked! Thanks, I must be working too hard 😉

[mtimdog]

Originally posted by LordShryku
Hrrmmm....I think I'd still chunk split it.

$split = chunk_split($num,6);
$array = explode("\r\n",$split);

[/B]

Ok, but the last thing in your array will be "" because chunksplit adds \r\n at the end too.

[LordShryku]

Ok, unset the last one.