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Help with stripping value from return string - El Forum - 04-04-2012
[eluser]ppwalks[/eluser]
Hi all, got a bit of a problem and wondering if anyone knew of a way to tackle this problem, I have a search field to search specific data compiled of {letters - numbers - letters}, what i need to do is trim of the letters after the numbers, each record has a different string length which is why i cant just remove after a certain amount of characters.
Anyone ever done anything like this before or could point me in the right direction,
thanks all
Paul
Help with stripping value from return string - El Forum - 04-04-2012
[eluser]johnpeace[/eluser]
That'll be a regular expression...which I suck at...but which there are plenty of people who love to show off their regexp skills...wait for it.
Help with stripping value from return string - El Forum - 04-04-2012
[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
Is there a dash separating the 3 segments (letters-numbers-letters)? If so you could just explode() on the dash and only use the first 2 parts of the resulting array (letters-numbers)
Code:
$parts = explode('-', $the_string);
$term = $parts[0] . '-' . $parts[1];Help with stripping value from return string - El Forum - 04-04-2012
[eluser]kb1ibh[/eluser]
if there is no dash, and the solution above doesnt work, could you post some examples of these letter-number-letter combinations?
Edited to Add:
if there are no dashes, This might work... Havent had a chance to test it, but i dont think i made any serious errors
Code:
$string = YOUR_LETTER_NUMBER_LETTER_STRING;
preg_match("/([a-zA-Z]+)([0-9]+)([a-zA-Z]+)/", $string, $matches);
echo "part 1: " . $matches[0] . "\n";
echo "part 2: " . $matches[1] . "\n";
echo "part 3: " . $matches[2] . "\n";It should work with both A1A and AAAAAA11111111AAAAAAAA, no matter how long the string is
Help with stripping value from return string - El Forum - 04-05-2012
[eluser]ppwalks[/eluser]
thanks guys for the return messages, there are no dashes I demonstrated that to show the 3 seperate values, the values i'm using to search through are postal codes, in the database it has the postcodes as example: cg12 or b1 or can be b12 which is a different area completely so if I match the first letters and numbers it brings back the correct results.
hope that makes sense.
thanks
Paul
Help with stripping value from return string - El Forum - 04-05-2012
[eluser]ppwalks[/eluser]
Unless there is an sql statement to do the same job also?
Help with stripping value from return string - El Forum - 04-05-2012
[eluser]ppwalks[/eluser]
No doesn't work it takes first 3 characters