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break up a string by two specific characters in differing locations


turpentyne

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This is probably a simple one. I just couldn't find a tutorial to the specific thing I'm trying.

 

I have a string that looks like: "(abbreviated name with.) second abbrev. name."

 

I'm trying to find a way to break this apart so I can have:

 

$var1 = "abbreviated name with."

$var2 = "second abbrev. name."

 

I've looked at substr and a couple others and I'm not sure quite how to do this, because the ')' could be in a differing location.

 

 

 

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hmmm.. maybe I spoke too soon... This worked for me. I assume this is an ok/secure way to do it?

 


$author = "(abbreviated name with.) second abbrev. name."
$splitter = split('[()]', $author);

$firstname = $splitter[1];

$secondname = $splitter[2];

echo $firstname.' and '.$secondname;

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