String formating

[budimir]

Guys can any one tell me how to format a string to look like this:

 

Original string:

531008058

 

Wanted string:

531 00 80-58

 

I can't find a proper solution...

 

Thank you!

[requinix]

Always nine digits? I'd take the easy way out:

substr($string, 0, 3) . " " . substr($string, 3, 2) . " " . substr($string, 5, 2) . "-" . substr($string, 7, 2)

[Barand]

Some years ago I wrote myself a general purpose utility function for formatting strings (part numbers, phone numbers etc)

function formatIt($format,$str)
{
    $i = $j = 0;
    $res = '';
    $kf = strlen($format);
    $ks = strlen($str);
    while ($i < $kf  && $j < $ks) {
        $res .= $format[$i]=='#' ? $str[$j++] : $format[$i];
        ++$i;
    }
    if ($j<$ks) $res .= substr($str,$j);
    return $res;
}

$str1 = '531008058';
echo formatIt('### ## ##-##', $str1);  // --> 531 00 80-58

// or phone numbers eg
$str2 = '01234567890222';
echo formatIt('(####) ### #### ext ###', $str2);  // --> (0123) 456 7890 ext 222

[budimir]

Barand, exactly what I need!!!

 

Thank you so much!

 

Very usefull for other things.