Question

I hope you can help me.

I have a string like the following

Luke 1:26-38

And I would like to be able to break it up into tokens or individual variables so that I can use the variables in an SQL query.

I’ve tried using explode, however I’ve only been able to make it explode on one character such as : or –

My string has : and – and also a space between the name and the first number.

My goal is to have:

    $name = Luke;
    $book = 1;
    $from = 26;  
    $to = 38;

Is anyone able to help please.

Many thanks

Answer 1

list( $name, $book, $from, $to ) = preg_split( '/[ :-]/', 'Luke 1:26-38' );

echo $name; //"Luke"

    /* Split results in an Array
(
    [0] => Luke
    [1] => 1
    [2] => 26
    [3] => 38
)
     */