I am trying to extract bits of a string.
The string looks like this:
$rowstr = "8:12-bk-16430|8:2012-bk-16430|1080751|7|||||10/30/2012|1/30/2012|||bk|||PINELLAS-FL|Tampa|Paid...
I get the first field just fine using this:
$pos1 = strpos($rowstr, "|") +1; //begining of field case number
$pos2 = strpos($rowstr, "|", $pos1 + 1); //end of field case number
$len1 = $pos2 - $pos1; //string length
$field['case_num'][$i] = substr($rowstr,$pos1,$len1); // casenumber extracted
But when I try to extract the second field (should be 1080751
)
$pos3 = strpos($rowstr, "|", $pos2); //end of field
$pos4 = strpos($rowstr, "|", $pos3 + 1); //end of field
$len2 = $pos3 - $pos4; //string length
$field['field2'][$i] = substr($rowstr,$pos3,$len2); // field 2 extracted
The result is a very long string that starts with |1080751|7|||||10/30/2012|10..
.
If $pos3
returns 16
and $pos4
returns 24
then why am I getting a result so much longer than 8 characters? Is PHP not counting special charters for some reason? How can I fix this?