Parsing a PHP String without Delimiters

**Douglas Abernathy** · Jul 17 '05, 12:19 AM

Re: Parsing a PHP String without Delimiters

"AttilaTheChris " <cmh_jobs@yahoo .com> wrote in message
news:e1facc8a.0 310011331.37ae4 b1e@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> I'm trying to figure out how to parse the MySQL Date/Time group
> '20031001155704 ' into meaningful data (i.e. - year, month, day, hour,
> minute, and second).
>
> Is there a built-in PHP string function that does this?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris[/color]

The function you are searching for is sscanf.

Try this code (just paste this into a file as is):

<?
//Parse of time format
$textstring = "20031001155704 ";
$result = sscanf($textstr ing,"%4s%2s%2s% 2s%2s%2s");
list($year,$mon th,$day,$hour,$ minute,$second) = $result;
print "<html>\n<head> \n</head>\n<body>\n ";
print "The original string is\n<pre>$texts tring\n</pre>\n";
print "Year = $year\n";
print "Month = $month\n";
print "Day = $day\n";
print "Hour = $hour\n";
print "Minute = $minute\n";
print "Second = $second\n";
print "</body>\n</html>\n";
?>

Douglas Abernathy

Parsing a PHP String without Delimiters

Parsing a PHP String without Delimiters

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