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Posted by d on 02/16/06 13:08
"none" <""krwl\"@(none)"> wrote in message
news:ML2dnQej5shzZG7eRVn-iA@rcn.net...
> Hello:
>
> Using PHP 4.3.11
>
> The line: $strDate = preg_split('/[\.\/-]/', $my_date);
> works to break apart a date in the form mm/dd/yyyy or mm.dd.yyyy or
> mm-dd-yyyy
> but the line: $strDate = preg_split('/[\/-\.]/', $my_date);
> doesn't work.
>
> Why does the order of the items make a difference?
In a regular expression character class definition (the bit in the []s), a
hyphen denotes a range of characters, so [a-z] will match all lowercase
letters of the alphabet, and [0-9] will match all numbers from 0 to 9. If
you escape your hyphen, it doesn't matter where you put it in your class.
$strDate = preg_split('/[\/\-\.]/', $my_date);
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
hope that helps!
dave
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