Maybe http://php.net/strtok
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----- Original Message -----
From: rm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:56 PM
Subject: [PHP] Splitting a complex string problem
> I have a string that can be any length and contain any
> number or words. Each string also has, somewhere
> near end, a list of parameters that can begin with any
> number of five or six different parameter markers. I
> need to find the position of the first of these
> parameters markers, which can be in any order, so I
> can seperate the user string from the parameters...and
> I can't change the way the information is provided.
>
> The only way I could get this to work is, since
> there's only five different markers, locate the
> position of each marker in the string, stick it in an
> array, sort the array and find the first element that
> is greater than 3 (the strpos uses an offset of 3
> since the user portion of the string cannot be less
> than three charcters long plus a space), this element
> has to be the marker and position that begins the
> parameter portion of the string.
>
> Anyone know of a better more elegant ( read as faster)
> way to handle this problem.
>
> rm
>
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