> $str = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)";
>
> I need to fetch the 5th charcter after ".....compatible; M" in $str (ie
> '5').
>
> - The following gets me the fifth character along (ie 'l')
> $variable = substr ($str, 5, 1);
>
> How do i tell the substr to start counting from ".....compatible; M(start
> here)"
use a regular expression:
ereg("compatible; [A-Z]+ ([0-9]).*", $str, $variable);
or some such..
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