You can use split() or explode().

$string = "1234-5467" ;
list( $before_dash, $after_dash ) = explode( "-", $string ) ;

or

$array = explode( "-", $string ) ;

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
>  Wouldn't it be simpler to just remove the '-'?
> 
> $var = str_replace("-","",$var);
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Antti wrote:
> 
> > How can I take some text before the mark - and after it and put them for 
> > example in array. The purpose of this is to read trough mp3 files which 
> > are in the form of artist - song.mp3 and put them into a text file so I 
> > can put them into mysql db.
> > 
> > antti
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