Extracting Numbers

gobbles

Hey All,

I was wondering of someone could help me ... i have a number 1234567890 and i would like to split them up so the first 2 numbers go to $number1 the next 4 numbers go to $number2 and the remaining 4 numbers go to $number_3

The number comes from a database so it has to be dynamic .. any help would be great 🙂

laserlight

PHP has dynamic typing, so just treat the number as a string and access the characters pairwise.

dalecosp

Or, to risk "variation on a theme", use a string function; [man]substr/man comes to mind first....

iNFERiON

Yes, substring would be the best solution here, so you would get:

$number = "1234567890";
$number_1 = substr($number, 0, 1);
$number_2 = substr($number, 2, 5);
$number_3 = substr($number, 6, 9);

And you can call them all seperatly like this:

echo "The first two numbers are: " . $number_1 . "<br>\n";
echo "The four numbers after that are: " . $number_2 . "<br>\n";
echo "The last four numbers are: " . $number_3 . "<br>\n";