[Resolved] A complicated String thing

[zingbats]

Hello. I have a particular variable with different sections seperated with hyphens (-).

I need a way to seperate all of the different parts into items in an array (or as seperate strings, whichever is easier)

The string will look something like this:

200-whatever-blah-whatever-etc

Also, I need a method of searching strings for particular key words.

Any help would be appreciated.
Alex.

[mrhappiness]

$string = '200-whatever-blah-whatever-etc';
$array = explode('-', $string);

what do you by "I need a method of searching strings for particular key words"?
http://www.ph.net/strstr and http://www.ph.net/stristr ?

[mtimdog]

I think there's also a way to see if a key exists in an array...give me a second to search the man.

edit: [man]array_key_exists[/man]