Posted by Jason Wong on 04/11/05 09:37

On Monday 11 April 2005 09:27, Russ wrote:
> I have been trying to get the following code working. I keep getting an
> error on line nine.

And the error is?

> It looks simular to the example in the PHP online
> manual. If I substitute a print command for line nine I get the correct
> information from $_POST[username]. I must be missing or have an extra a
> quote but I cannot figure out where.

> name($fname, $lname) = split('[/\s+/]', "$_POST[username]");

split() probably uses POSIX regex and hence knows nothing about '\s'. Use
preg_split() instead:

list($fname, $lname) = preg_split('/\s+/', $_POST['username']);

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