String Manipulation using php

Question

I have a string like this

$str=44797675962044781781414912/04/2012

First 12 digit: 447976759620 is the phone number
Next 12 digit: 447817814149 is the server code

and rest are the date

I am trying to get it like this:

echo substr($str,0,12).'<br/>';
echo substr($str,12,24).'<br/>';
$tempRest["receivedtime"]=substr($pieces[0],-10);

Getting this weird out put :

   44797675962
   12/04/2012
   44778691004444781781414912/04/2012

What can I do. Any help?

EDITED :

Original code :

  function GetSoapReturnArray() {
 $classmap = array('MyWSDLStructure' => 'MyComplexDataType');
 $m_wsdl = 'https://m2mconnect.orange.co.uk/orange-soap/services/MessageServiceByCountry?wsdl';
  $m_arr_soapclient = array('trace' => true, 'exceptions' => true);


  $soap_client_handle = new SoapClient($m_wsdl, $m_arr_soapclient);
  $soap_result = $soap_client_handle->peekMessages('telab048', 'Qwerty12', 40, '', 1);;

  $str=NULL;
  
  foreach ($soap_result as $soapArrayData)
  {
    $pieces = preg_split('/[ ]/', $soapArrayData);

  $str=$pieces[0];
    //echo $str.'<br/>';
    
    echo substr($str, 0, 12) . '<br />';
    echo substr($str, 12, 12) . '<br />';
  }
}


}
  GetSoapReturnArray();

You get $str from where? XML?

dan-lee
– dan-lee

2012-04-20 18:54:43 +00:00
Commented Apr 20, 2012 at 18:54 — dan-lee
– dan-lee, Commented Apr 20, 2012 at 18:54
seems its XML response. Did you try DOM?

Shiplu Mokaddim
– Shiplu Mokaddim

2012-04-20 19:12:05 +00:00
Commented Apr 20, 2012 at 19:12 — Shiplu Mokaddim
– Shiplu Mokaddim, Commented Apr 20, 2012 at 19:12

Ry- · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-20 18:54:30Z

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The second parameter to substr is the length, not the ending index. Pass 12 instead of 24.

echo substr($str, 0, 12) . '<br />';
echo substr($str, 12, 12) . '<br />';
$tempRest["receivedtime"] = substr($pieces[0], 24);

answered Apr 20, 2012 at 18:54

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sohel14_cse_ju Over a year ago

no luck the output is like this :44797675962044781781414912/04/2012 < sourcemsisdn

sohel14_cse_ju Over a year ago

the string is coming from a webservice..but this shouldn't be the problem..let me show u what the original code is...

hakre Over a year ago

@minitech: Take a look at sscanf doing this.

Ry- Over a year ago

@sohel14_cse_ju: You figured out what the string contained by using echo $str . '<br />';, right? Well, it may have contained XML that your browser did not display (it being part of the structure). Try "View Source" on that output, and I think you'll find some unexpected things.

sohel14_cse_ju Over a year ago

ya it was returning xml..i jsut made a parser and that worked..thanks

Baba · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-20 19:37:12Z

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you are having problems because $str is not just a string it contains HTML tags use strip_tags to filter all the html tags ...

Try

    foreach ( $soap_result as $soapArrayData ) {
        $pieces = preg_split ( '/[ ]/', $soapArrayData );

        $str = $pieces [0];
        $str = trim ( $str );
        $str = strip_tags ( $str );
        echo substr ( $str, 0, 12 ) . '<br />'; //Phone Number
        echo substr ( $str, 12, 12 ) . '<br />'; // Server Code
        echo substr ( $str, 24, 10 ) . '<br />'; //Time
    }

answered Apr 20, 2012 at 19:37

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hakre · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-20 19:57:49Z

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For that you have sscanf:

$r = sscanf($str, '%12s%12s%s', $phone, $server, $date);

Output (var_dump($phone, $server, $date);):

string(12) "447976759620"
string(12) "447817814149"
string(10) "12/04/2012"

answered Apr 20, 2012 at 19:57

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