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[vicodin]

Ok im still pretty new at php so what im trying to accomplish is this:

 

Ok in my string i have things seperated by a "|" what i want to do is get only the first peice of data that is in the first "|" and leave off the rest.

 

If you dont get just say so ill try to refrase it. Thank you!!!

[ratcateme]

here use substr and strpos

$first_part=substr($str,0,strpos('|',$str));

 

Scott.

[vicodin]

Now it doesnt show anything.

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[ratcateme]

sorry i had the strpos around the wrong way it should be

$first_part=substr($str,0,strpos($str,'|'));

 

Scott.

[vicodin]

Awesome that worked. But i forgot to include something. Not all of my data that its grabbing from the DB has a "|" because not all have mulitple parts. Those are comming up blank. Any ideas?

 

Thanks again Scott!

[ratcateme]

try this

<?php
if(preg_match('|',$str)){
$first_part=substr($str,0,strpos($str,'|'));
}else{
$first_part=$str;
}
?>

 

Scott.

[vicodin]

Thank you!!!