String Help!

[pengu]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to figure out how to get some numbers out of a string.

 

Example of strings

$string1 = "3-tech";
$string2 = "109-bobby";
$string3 = "4-Charlie1994";
$string4 = "55-Mr-Smith";

 

What I want to do is grab everything BEFORE the "-" and the first dash.

I'm having a brain meltdown atm and just can't figure it out, I know it's something simple.

[gizmola]

Believe it or not, you can cast all those values to int and you'll get the starting number:

 

$string1 = "3-tech";
echo (int)$string1;

[silkfire]

There are many ways you can do this.

 

Another way is:

 

$string1 = '3-tech';
$string1 = strstr($string1, '-', true);