[SOLVED] Need some quick help extracting data from a string

[moola]

Test Location:  United States - South Carolina - Greenville - Bellsouth.net In


I need to grab the following Greenville and South Carolina from the exact format of the string above..
I am using the fget function to get the string from a website into an $buffer

$buffer .= fgets($fd, 4096);

Basically i need to extract South Carolina and put it into $state
And Greenville and put it into $city
other variables would be cool but not necessary.
This may be a bit of an easy question but I really got no time to master regex's right not I would love to learn it soon. I'm new to php still learning some other stuff before i get to everyone favorite lol

[bljepp69]

If the string is always in that format:

[code]
<?php
  $buffer = "United States - South Carolina - Greenville - Bellsouth.net In";

  preg_match_all('/(.*)\s-\s(.*)\s-\s(.*)\s-\s(.*)/',$buffer,$matches,PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

  $state = $matches[2][0];
  $city = $matches[3][0];

  //use this code below to see the values and structure of the $matches array.  You could set other variables using the same format above.
  echo "MATCHES:<pre>".print_r($matches,TRUE)."</pre>";
?>

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[Nicklas]

Use explode()

ex
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[code=php:0]$str = "Test Location:  United States - South Carolina - Greenville - Bellsouth.net In";
list( , $state, $city) = explode(' - ', $str);[/code]
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Now the state is stored in [b]$state[/b], and the city in [b]$city[/b] ;)