[RESOLVED] Extracting from a string

[baffled_in_UK]

Hello,

I have several string values that I wish to extract specific info from. String manipulation has always been my shortfall 🙁

The string is in this format 5-104

What I want to do is extract the 5 and the 104 into 2 seperate fields and ignore the -

Any help much appreciated.

[baffled_in_UK]

Just found the answer 🙂

$string = "5-104";
$split = explode("-", $string);
$fld1 = $split[0];
$fld2 = $split[1];

Thanks anyway.

[Weedpacket]

Or, given that

list($fld1, $fld2) = explode('-', $string);

. Or

sscanf('%d-%d',$fld1,$fld2);

The string format syntax in the latter case just says "digits, followed by a hyphen, followed by more digits".