search a string and return string between char?

[ale1981]

Hi,

 

Sorry if this is a really simple question but I have searched the php manual and cant seem to work out how to do it.

 

I have a string like this;

 

Full Name (Department)

 

How can I split that string into seperate strings for Full Name and Department, so that everything before the () is the full name and everything between the () is the department?

 

Thanks in advance.

[tapos]

You can use preg_split() function.

here u can find..

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-split.php

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Tapos Pal

[ale1981]

Could you explain what regular expression i would use to create the correct array?

[effigy]

<pre>
<?php
$string = 'Full Name (Department)';
$pieces = preg_split('/[()]/', $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
print_r($pieces);
?>
</pre>

[ale1981]

That works great, thanks effigy