|  | Posted by Jason Wong on 04/11/05 09:37 
On Monday 11 April 2005 09:27, Russ wrote:> I have been trying to get the following code working. I keep getting an
 > error on line nine.
 
 And the error is?
 
 > It looks simular to the example in the PHP online
 > manual. If I substitute a print command for line nine I get the correct
 > information from $_POST[username]. I must be missing or have an extra a
 > quote but I cannot figure out where.
 
 > name($fname, $lname) = split('[/\s+/]', "$_POST[username]");
 
 split() probably uses POSIX regex and hence knows nothing about '\s'. Use
 preg_split() instead:
 
 list($fname, $lname) = preg_split('/\s+/', $_POST['username']);
 
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