Question

I have a form that I have to pull some strings out of. The form uses long dashed lines for dividing data sets. It would be handy to use:

strpos($string, "----")

and

$file2= explode("-----", $file1)

but they don’t seem to work. I have replaced the “-” with “.” and used “…..” in the above to successfully extract the needed data, but it removes wanted dashes, such as 2-year-old, in the extracted data. So I’m back to wanting to use “—-” in the code lines above.

I also tried to just replace “–” to “..” but the following doesn’t work either.

$string = str_ireplace("--", "..",$string );

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Is there a way to make this work?

Answer 1

This works perfectly fine.

    <?php

    $test = 'name----address----2-year-old----dob';

    $test_chunks = explode("----", $test);

    echo $test_chunks[2];

    ?>

Displays “2-year-old” w/o any issues. If you must convert the dashes to something else, try this as well:

    test_convert = str_replace("----", "....", $test);

…and then explode using periods.