PHP on Windows - Re: formating a string

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Re: formating a string

cdmn

2007-08-13, 8:01 am

James Savage wrote:
> i have a 12 digit code that i want to format as follows xxxx-xxxx-xxxx it is
> all numbers i tried using substr() to format it in this fassion
> $code = abcdwxyz8765;
> $string = array();
> $string[] = substr($code,1,4);
> $string[] = substr($code,5,8);
> $string[] = substr($code9,12);
> echo $string[0],'-',$string[1],'-',$string[2];
> OUTPUT SHOULD BE : abcd-wxyz-5678
> I GET : -wxyz678-5678
> Any help?

Very very nasty code :/

Here ya go: implode('-', str_split('abcdwxyz8765', 4));
Test:
C:\>php -r "echo implode('-', str_split('abcdwxyz8765', 4));"
abcd-wxyz-8765

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