Basic Question on arrays / strings!

[niwa3836]

Hi sorry silly question, bit stuck on

 

Basically I am writing some code to reformat a string that comes in with lots of spaces. I have to be a little clever in my program as some of the column headers dont quite match with the content below (sometimes out by 1 char).

 

The question is basically however: -

 

Lets say

$String = "This is a test" ;

and i then do

$out = "" ;

$out[0] = $String[0] ;

$out[1] = $String[1] ;

$out[2] = $String[2] ;

$out[3] = $String[3] ;

 

If I: -

print("Output " . $out) ;

 

it says Array, but I want it to print "This"

 

 

I know this is something silly but dont want to use print_r etc, is there a way of change $out array back to a normal string

 

Comments please!

[trq]

is there a way of change $out array back to a normal string

 

I fail to see the point but....

 

<?php

$String = "This is a test";
$out = array();
$out[0] = $String[0];
$out[1] = $String[1];
$out[2] = $String[2];
$out[3] = $String[3];
echo implode(' ', $out);

?>

[trq]

Just realised that would echo...

 

T h i s

 

You code for splitting the string into an array won't work as you expect. Maybe....

 

<?php

  $out = explode(' ', $String);

?>

 

is what your after?

[sasa]

$String = "This is a test" ;

$out = "" ;
$out .= $String[0] ;
$out .= $String[1] ;
$out .= $String[2] ;
$out .= $String[3] ;
echo $out;

[resago]

whats the point?

 

[laffin]

looks like he trying to get the words, seperated

 

which $words=explode(' ',$string);

 

wid work

thus echo $word[0] wud print out 'this'