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Ok guys and gals i’ve been suffering code-block for the past couple of hours on this thing.

I’m trying to generate some graphics via php based on fields in a database (there are roughly 1500 pictures that need to be created - so not doing them in Photoshop)

Anyhoo…

I’ve got a string “10¢ OFF Regular Price”

How can I split that at the second space?  so that i get

$str[1] = "10¢ OFF";
$str[2] = "Regular Price";

Like I said, been blocked for hours on this stupid but of junk, hoping someone can help me out.

TIA.

ah, yes, that would be a way.. however, as I said I have 1500 records that need to be parsed.  So, while yeah, that is a solution I was hoping for a suggestion that was a bit more robust, but… I may just have to use a hammer to nail and do a switch statement based on the size of the array generated from the explode and then concatenate those results… I could also customize it based on the length of the words as well…

Thanks for the suggestion.

Here are some other examples.

ex:

Beef
Beef Stew
Excellent For Broiling
Hamburger from Ground Chuck
Fully Cooked - Ready to eat
Compre 1 y Gratis 1
Reduced! use today or freeze

Use explode(), then re-assemble as needed:

<?php

$foo = "Hello world. It's a beautiful day.";
$bar = explode(" ",$str));
echo $bar[0] . $bar[1];
?>

Untested.

Use the limit parameter of explode to make it easier to re-assemble.

$str = "10¢ OFF Regular Price";
$arr = explode(' ', $str, 3);
$arr[1] = $arr[0] . ' ' . $arr[1];
array_shift($arr);

print_r($arr);

Result:

Array
(
    [0] => 10¢ OFF
    [1] => Regular Price
)

You could use regex assertions to say, “find first space preceded by a space” but I’m not sure it would be any more or less efficient than what’s been suggested so far.