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Simple PHP Quiz
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// Fun little quiz | |
Assuming this string: "January 5th, 2012" | |
In the shortest amount of code possible, place: | |
- 'January' within a $month variable | |
- '5th' within a $day variable | |
- '2012' within a $year variable. | |
See if you can accomplish this with one line of code. (And no snarky $month = 'January' answers. | |
Assume that the format always stays the same, but month, day, and year values can change with each referesh. |
@topdown, what is the point of the trim()
since there are no leading/following commas?
Combining @letsallplaygolf with @thecrypticace I get:
extract(date_parse(date('F jS Y')));
@xeoncross trim is stripping the comma
trim has an optional parameter for specifying a character list http://php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php
Wasn't thinking about date_parse already handling it.
@topdown I think @xeoncross was pointing out that trim() only trims characters from the beginning/end of a string, not the middle. So trim isn't required in your code :)
@JeffreyWay Nice teaser though. I didn't know about the sscanf() function.
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Of course, my calendar has 30 months of 12 days each :D