simple substr help..

[Anti-Moronic]

Hi, I was needing a little substr help.

 

I'm not tackling a specific problem, but I am needing some understanding on how I can implement this.

 

Say I have a string:

 

"what, he said that -100"

 

How would I go about putting everything from the , to the - in a string? Namely:

 

"he said that"

 

I am at a loss with these needles and such.

 

Thanks.

[.josh]

substr is only good for string extraction if you already know where to start and end.  Extracting things between "a" and "b" is what the regex functions are for. 

 

$string = "what, he said that -100";
preg_match('~,\s?(.*?)\s?-~',$string,$match);
// example to see the extracted info
echo "<pre>";print_r($match);