dividing one variable and store it into another variables

[amit_shetye]

hi all,

i want to know whether it is possible to determine the particular character in the string??

i'm having one variable i.e.
$content="Air+Pacific%2C+Model%3A+Airbus%2C+Depart ure%3A+13%2F02%2Fp.m.";

i want to divide the above variable into three different variables so the result i'm expecting is :
$company="Air Pacific";
$model="Airbus";
$departure="13.02p.m.";

so is it possible in php??

anybody is having any idea??

thanx in advance

regards

amit

[Pheonix]

take a look at http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-split.php
that function is probaly going to be the main part of it, working the specific details is to much for me at this hour, but good luck

[amit_shetye]

hi,

i'm able to seperate the one variable and stores it into the three variable but in the following case what should i do??
i'm having one variable i.e.

$content="Jet+Airways%2CIndia%2C+Model%3A+Airbus%2 C+Departure%3A+13%2F02%2Fp.m.";

In the above variable the company name is also seperated by comma and other things i.e. Model and Departure are also seperated by comma.
and my expected result is as below:

$company="Jet Airways, India";
$model="Airbus";
$departure="13.02p.m.";

so in this case what shall i do?? where the seperator is comma.

[Rob]

If it's comma seperated, just split each element into an array, then just merge the specific array elements into one...

ie, merge (0) and (1) :- company
.... and the same for the other items.

[amit_shetye]

hi rob,

thanx for the advice

but in this case there are some comapny names are seperated by comma
for example:

$item1="Air+Pacific%2C+Model%3A+Airbus%2C+Depart ure%3A+13%2F02%2Fp.m."&$item2="Jet+Airways%2CIndia %2C+Model%3A+Airbus%2 C+Departure%3A+13%2F02%2Fp.m"

in the above case in the first item the company name is not seperated by comma but in the second item the comapny name is seperated by comma and i want to use the dynamic script for that so that it will classify all the company's names no matter whereever the comma is.

[Rob]

Well.... if your data is has no integrity of consistant format, the only way you are going to do this is to bodge it.
You need to compile a list of company names that have a comma and cross-check with that list.

If you have no consitency in the data, I would be moaning like hell to the data provider to get some consistency and integrity in there.