string in php

[kadamsurekha]

hello!

i hav a string which will be like "abcd*pqrs*"

i want the "abcd" part to store separetely in 1 string and "pqrs" separetely.

 

i have written the code as follows:

 

 

<?

  $friendname=$_get["user"];//this will store tht strng (abcd*pqrs*)

  $x=0;

  for($i=0;$i<strlen($friendname);$i++)

{

    if($friendname[$i]=='*')

    {

        $str=substr($friendname,$x,$i-1);

        echo "$str";

        $x=$i+1;       

    }

       

}

?>

 

can any1 tell me what is wrong here??

or any other way to do it?

[taith]

its much faster/easier this way...

$friendname=$_get["user"];
$explode=explode('*',$friendname);
//then you have part one in $explode[0] and part 2 in $explode[1]... and so on :-)

[sasa]

or

<?php
$a ='*sasa*dfg*jkl*55555*6666';
preg_match_all('/\*([^\*]+)/',$a, $b);
print_r($b[1]);
?>