Split into two variables?

Question

Say I have the following: "44-xkIolspO"

I want to return 2 variables:

$one = "44";
$two = "xkIolspO";

What would be the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Try this:

list($one, $two) = split("-", "44-xkIolspO", 2);

list($one, $two) = explode("-", "44-xkIolspO", 2);

Answer 2

PHP has a function called preg_split() splits a string using a regular expression. This should do what you want.

Or explode() might be easier.

    $str = "44-xkIolspO";
    $parts = explode("-", $str);
    $one = $parts[0];
    $two = $parts[1];