a small string question

Discussion in 'PHP' started by dizyn, Mar 6, 2008.

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    I have a sting like "03335240141" i want display it like 0333-524-0141 is there any string function that can do this for me?

    thank you
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  2. Jawn

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    You can do it with simple regex code.


    
<?php

	$number = "03335240141";
	$pattern = "/([0-9]{4})([0-9]{3})([0-9]{4})/";

	preg_match($pattern, $number, $matches);

	echo $matches[1]. "-" .$matches[2]. "-" .$matches[3];
	
?>
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    Jawn, Mar 6, 2008 IP