help with preg_match please

Hi there
I want to separate the first part of the postcode (up to the space) from the rest.

Please bear in mind that first part of a postcode can be 3 or 4 characters long.

I have written this php code, which is wrong.

$code=$_POST["pcode"];
			
			$data= ( preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+[[$:space:]]/', $code) );
			
			
			echo $data;

Code (markup):

can some one please help.
thx in advance.

 

If there is definitely doing to be a space, why not just use explode?

$code = $_POST["pcode"];
$data = explode(' ', $code);
print_r($data);

PHP:

Sorry if I've missed the point

Jay

 

Hi
No you haven't missed the point and in theory should have solved the problem but I get this message when I enter the postcode FD5 2DE:

Array ( [0] => FG5 [1] => 2DE

any ideas please?
thx

 

That's just outputting the array. This should guide you:

echo "First part: ";
echo $data[0];

echo "First second: ";
echo $data[1];

PHP:

 

Hi Got it.
I used:

echo $data[0];

Code (markup):

That gave me the first part of the code up to space.

many thx