Changing the format of a string

iceomnia

Hi Everyone,

If I have a string that looks like this:

01234567899

and make it look like this

code 3456-7899[/code]

Anyone have an example of how I would do that?

laserlight

It depends on how variable is the format. In this case it looks like [man]substr/man will suffice, e.g.,

$str = '(' . substr($str, 0, 3) . ' )' . substr($str, 3, 4) . '-' . substr($str, 7);

iceomnia

Hi,

Thanks, but I'd already thought of that... Problem is, the string can be of many different formats, it's the format of a phone number, so for example:

	$phoneFormats = array(
		'GB' => 'xxxxx xxxxxx',
		'US' => 'xxx-xxx-xxxx',
		'DE' => 'xxxx-xxxx-xx'
		// etc etc etc
	);

laserlight

Thanks, but I'd already thought of that... Problem is, the string can be of many different formats, it's the format of a phone number, so for example:

Now it depends on whether your input format is variable. If it is pretty much fixed at the number of digits for the given country, you could use [man]preg_replace/man with something like this:

<?php
$phoneFormats = array(
    'GB' => '(\d{3})(\d{6})',
    'US' => '(\d{3})(\d{3})(\d{4})',
    'DE' => '(\d{4})(\d{4})(\d{2})'
);

$formatReplacements = array(
    'GB' => '\1 \2',
    'US' => '\1-\2-\3',
    'DE' => '\1-\3-\3'
);

$country = 'GB';
$number = '01234567899';
echo preg_replace('/' . $phoneFormats[$country] . '/', $formatReplacements[$country], $number);
?>