On Thursday 27 March 2003 13:05, Jim wrote:
> Could someboy please help me with this simple task (at least I though it
> would be simple):
>
> I need to split a string with two dates in into two datestrings, and there
> might be whatever between the dates, e.g.
> $datestring = "010101aaaaa020202", or $dateting = " 010101+++++++++020202
> "
>
> Then I thought that
> $date = preg_split("/[\D]+/",trim($datestring))
> whould do the job, but it didn't.
>
> Why? and how should it be?
I'll leave it to someone else to answer why.
Try this:
// untested, use at your own risk
preg_match_all('/(\d){6}/', $str, $matches);
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