Extracting certain text from string into 2 variables.

[sdhunter]

I have a string that arrives as

 

"data1-some text here"

"data2-some other text here"

"data3-some more text here"

 

I would like to extract the "data1" into one variable then the text after the "-" into another variable.  I've been looking at ways to do it with str_replace and trim, but can't work it out.  Only been coding php a couple of months on and off and its the first time i need to do this.  Any help would be much appreciated.  TIA

[thebadbad]

If the hyphen only appears once, you can explode() the string on the hyphen, and get an array with the two parts returned:

 

<?php
$str = 'data1-some text here';
$parts = explode('-', $str);
//$parts[0] contains 'data1', $parts[1] contains 'some text here'
?>

[sdhunter]

Thank you very much. That works perfect!