Parsing a PHP String without Delimiters

I'm not sure if my last post went through (so my apologies if this is a repeat).

I need to figure out how to separate a string that contains no delimters.
In this case, a MySQL timestamp ('20031001155704 ') into date and time units.

Is there a date function for this?
If not, I would be just as happy with a string function.

Thanks,
Chris

cmh_jobs@yahoo.com (AttilaTheChris) wrote in message > I need to figure out how to separate a string that contains no delimters.
> In this case, a MySQL timestamp ('20031001155704 ') into date and time units.
>
> Is there a date function for this?
A question that can be answered easily on your own..
http://www.php.net/
why wait hours when you can have immediate answers.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
and look at all those other handy date functions on the left.

$epoch_timestamp = strtotime('20031001155704');

or perhaps you should be using a mysql date function (see http://www.mysql.com)?

> If not, I would be just as happy with a string function.

On 1-Oct-2003, BradKent@swbell.net (BKDotCom) wrote:

> cmh_jobs@yahoo.com (AttilaTheChris) wrote in message > I need to figure
> out how to separate a string that contains no delimters.
> > In this case, a MySQL timestamp ('20031001155704 ') into date and time
> > units.
> >
> > Is there a date function for this?
> A question that can be answered easily on your own..
> http://www.php.net/
> why wait hours when you can have immediate answers.
>
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
> and look at all those other handy date functions on the left.
>
> $epoch_timestamp = strtotime('20031001155704');

Before you cast the RTFM stone you might want to RTFM yourself.

strtotime does not parse '20031001155704' you have to remove the seconds and
add a space between the date and time to make it work i.e.
$epoch_timestamp = strtotime('20031001 1557');

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> Before you cast the RTFM stone you might want to RTFM yourself.
>

I guess bum-info is one of the hazzards of usenet?

How about this?
$array = sscanf('20031001155704','%4d%2d%2d%2d%2d%2d');
list($year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec) = $array;