if you just want to know how many numbers are in it you can do this:
$num_of_numbers = sizeof(explode(';',$string));
--Joe
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:46:50PM -0800, Jon Jacob wrote:
> Kevin Connolly wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am quite new to PHP scripts and I have run into a little problem with my string!
> > I have a string called $numbers which is 5;6;12;21;36;42 (for example, it can be
>any 6 numbers between 1 and 42).
> > Is there an easy way that I can find out how many numbers there are in the string
>without the five semi-colons??
> > I was playing around with count_chars but had no success!
> > then i tried converting it to an array and counting the number of elements in the
>array but unfortunatley it put the whole string in as the first element of the array
>and returned a size of 1!
> > I would appreciate any help you can give me,
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin.
>
> Use split.
>
> (@ArrayName) = split (":", $numbers);
> $ElementsNum = count(@ArrayName);
>
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