You don't need a character class here (signified by [] brackets); you can use
$line = split('&|//', $field);
As you can see, this is identical to ReDucTor's solution, except that
the brackets are omitted. Character classes only work for single
characters, not multiple character strings like '//'.
- steve
At 3:21 PM -0400 7/4/01, David A Dickson wrote:
>Thanks for replying ReDucTor but that didn't work either. I tried
>$line = explode("[(&|//)]", $field); and
>$line = explode("[(&|////)]", $field); and
>$line = explode("[(&|\/\/)]", $field);
>with no success. Any other ideas?
>
>On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 04:50:29
> ReDucTor wrote:
>>$line = explode("[(&|//)]",$field); should work, or you might have to put
>>//// but thats not \ so you shouldn't need to comment out the slash...
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: David A Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: php-general <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 4:37 AM
>>Subject: [PHP] split() function
>>
>>
>>> I have a comma separated spreadsheet with one field that contains two
>>dates. the dates are formatted as dd/mm/yy and separated by either '&' or
>>'//' ex:3/12/92&28/1/93 or 3/12/92//28/1/93
>>> Problem: I need to split the field at the '&' or '//' separator but if I
>>do
> >> split('[&//]', $field);
>>> it splits on the '/' not the '//'.
>>> Can I do this in one function call to split() or will I have to do it
>>twice?
>
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