Posted by Henri on 09/24/07 15:21

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:46:16 +0200, gosha bine wrote:

> 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.

how stupid of me! the parenthese was converted to its html entity! Doh

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