insert value after specified number of chars

[chrislive]

Hi Everyone,

I have a number (say 936 or 1212) I want to count backwards 2 characters and insert a ":" character (which will create a time value actually.

so in my examples i would get 9:36 and 12:12

Your help would be great

Chris

[KingWylim]

Try http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.strtr.php

[mrhappiness]

$x = array('932', '1245', '705');
foreach ($x as $x)
    echo substr($x, 0, -2).':'.substr($x, -2, 2).'<br />';

[chrislive]

that function is for translating one character to another. I am wanting to insert a character at a specific point.

[chrislive]

thanks mrhappiness that did the job! Great! thanks!

[laserlight]

There's another way, using a single function, [man]substr_replace/man:

$x = array('932', '1245', '705');
foreach ($x as $str)
	echo substr_replace($str, ':', -2, 0) . '<br />';