Posted by anonymous on 07/16/07 01:45

On Jul 15, 8:29 pm, "Vince Morgan" <vinharAtHereoptusnet.com.au>
wrote:
> <?
> $string='datagreen,datablue,dataetc';
> $ary = explode($string, ',');
> echo "<p>".$ary[2]."</p>\t";
>
> ?>
> Should output:
>
> dataetc
>
> HTH
> Vince<rebecca...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1184548548.346329.169130@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Jul 15, 8:09 pm, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > .oO(rebecca...@gmail.com)
>
> > > >Usually I get a answer in alt.php concerning MYSQL :-) :-)
>
> > > >I've reposted the question below, I have a very large and complex
> > > >environment, and this is just the thing I need to do. Can someone
> > > >please show a working example? How does the explode() command help me
> > > >pull back #5 data slot? Thank you for your patience and anyone can
> > > >help that would be great.
>
> > > Did you actually read the manual page for explode()? Using it is pretty
> > > easy - you feed a string to it and get an array back. The 5th element of
> > > your string would be the 4th element in the array (zero-based indexes).
>
> > > Micha
>
> > Thank you Micha & Vince, this is kinda the theory that I hope to
> > figure out. I do understand there is a explode command, but there
> > isn't sufficient examples out there (or at least I have not found one
> > yet) related to answer what I would like.
>
> > The code example kindly posted by Vince is helpful to understand-see
> > the explode() command unravel the string, but it doesn't solve the
> > question I proposed. :( I want to be able to only print part of that
> > string on demand (5th slot for example).... am I getting close? ;)

Vince, maybe I missed something in running this, but I actually got a
empty return :(

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