[Resolved] string to multiple variables.

[daf_cr]

I have a string, and i want to split it up, into 3 different variables. How would i go about doing such a thing?

$string = "17/04/2004";

I want to split it up into:

$day, $month and $year.

Cheers.

[dougal]

$string = "17/04/2004";
I want to split it up into:
$day, $month and $year.

You can probably use the date-time functions but that's outa my league at present.

You can do this by using the substring function:
$day = "substr($string, 1, 2)";
$month = "substr($string, 4, 2)";
$year = "substr($string, 7, 4)";

To do it this way you do need to be sure that all your days and months are two-digits. If not you can use other string functions, such as strchr(), to sort out your variables from their location relative to the slashes.

Cheers
Dougal

[daf_cr]

I thank yee very much. I have been using the date-time functions, but it becomes a bugger when your dealing with people born before 1970, and lets face it, village cricket teams have a lot of those heheh.

thanks again.

[lilleman]

You can also use list() in combination with split():

$string = '17/04/2004';
list( $day, $month, $year ) = split('/', $string );

-- lilleman