Posted by gosha bine on 09/24/07 13:46

Henri 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?

Hi Henri

regular expressions would be on overkill here.

strtok($a, "(")

does exactly what you want - returns a portion of the string before "(".
If there's no "(" , the whole string will be returned.




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gosha bine

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