[RESOLVED] Add a character after 2nd position in a string

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I have inherited some data from a client with one particularly irksome field, namely, the "birthdate" field. They have the dates formatted as "mmdd" with no character to separate the mm from the dd. What I would like to do is to simply add a dash ("-") after the 2nd character in the string. Is there a way to do this in PHP 5?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts you may have,
-Chris

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Is there a way to do this in PHP 5?

Yes, several ways, in fact. One way involves a use of [man]substr_replace/man that inserts instead of replaces:

$birthdate = substr_replace($birthdate, '-', 2, 0);

[sandthipe]

thank you. that did the trick!