[stealth04]

Hi, I just posted it on C/C++ forum, because I have to do this piece of code in C but as PHP is similar and this forum is more active I'm posting it here again:

anyone knows how to select a piece of string from the array?
For example, let's say we have this: char mainstring[] = "This is a main string";
And I would like to display just a part of this string, for example the characters from mainstring[2] to mainstring[7].
Regards,
Niko

[UnrealEd]

Originally Posted by stealth04

Hi, I just posted it on C/C++ forum, because I have to do this piece of code in C but as PHP is similar and this forum is more active I'm posting it here again:

absolutly not true: php is totally different from C

anyway, try:

Code:

for(int i=0; i<mainstring.length; i++){
  for(int a=2; a<mainstring[i].length; a++){
   Console.writeline(mainstring[i][a]);
  }
}

i'm not familiar with the C syntax as you probably will recognise . but try this

Greetz,
UnrealEd

[Crassius]

Why not just use built in php functions like: substr and explode?

for example, if you want to separate the words in the string into an array do:
$yourarray = explode(" ", $mainstring); // This will make an array of the words because it's splits the string wherever there's a space (" ").

if you want to take a chunk out of the string do:
$chunk = substr($mainstring, a, b);
//a would be a number for which letter you want to start at.
//b would the number of characters until the chunk ends.
eg. $chunk = substr($mainstring, 2, 6);
this (using your string above) gives "is is "\

hope this helps, if not, check out the manual for both functions here:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php
and
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[Christian]

Moved to C/C++ ....

Somebody will get around and help you there!

BTW, please don't cross post!

[King Coder]

Well, you have the array, so just print out what you want.... Remember, char arrsys will end with a terminating character ('/0').

char mainstring[] = "This is a main string";

Code:

for (int i=2; i<=7; ++i)
{
   cout << mainstring[i] << endl;
}

That will print out characters from 2 to 7 (from a zero based index).