Posted by Captain Paralytic on 09/24/07 13:31

On 24 Sep, 13:52, Henri <h...@dontbother.fu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to split a string that contains parentheses; the aim here is
> to keep the part that's before the opening parenthese:
>
> the string (quoted here) is "36 (72 cm)"
> First I want to know if the string contains at least an openning
> parenthese; if it does, I split it and extract the first token (ie "36 ").
> My code follows
>
> if (preg_match("/\(/", $sPermutationName)) {
> $tokens = explode("\(", $sPermutationName);
> $sPermutationName = $tokens[0];
>
> }
>
> but that does not work. Would anyone care to enlighten me on this one?

"does not work", ahh how helpful! That tells us exactly what you are
actually seeing - NOT!!!

As a matter of interest, why are you exploding on "\(", when \ doesn't
appear in the target string?

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