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Khamees Smith
Khamees Smith

Reputation: 31

Adding Character between numbers

I have an integer $client_version=1000 I do need to add dots between every number in this integer so it looks like 1.0.0.0 and save it in new variable as string.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 223

Answers (4)

mickmackusa
mickmackusa

Reputation: 47883

For the simple matter of injecting a dot between every character, you can use preg_replace() and target each zero-width position which is not the start or end of the string.

Code: (Demo)

$client_version = 1000;
echo preg_replace(
         '/(?!^|$)/',
         '.',
         $client_version
     );
// 1.0.0.0

As others have warned, using an integer as the version number will become unusable when individual integers require more than one digit.

Upvotes: 0

Lorenz Lo Sauer
Lorenz Lo Sauer

Reputation: 24710

  • PHP offers the function array str_split ( string $string [, int $split_length = 1 ] ) to convert a string to a character-array or blocks of characters. In your case, invoking str_split((string)1000, 1) or str_split((string)1000) will result in:

    Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 0
    [2] => 0
    [3] => 0
)

    Code:

    implode('.',str_split((string)1000))

    Result: 1.0.0.0

  • For a more general, yet less well known approach, based on Regular Expression see this gist and this tangentially related topic on SO.

    Code:

    preg_match_all('/(.{1})/', (string)1000, $matches);
echo implode('.', $matches[0]);

    Result: 1.0.0.0

Upvotes: 1

Sergiu Paraschiv
Sergiu Paraschiv

Reputation: 10153

Use str_split to get an array of chars and then implode them.

$client_version = 1000;
$client_version_chars = str_split($client_version);
$client_version_with_dots = implode('.', $client_version_chars);

Upvotes: 0

Darien
Darien

Reputation: 3592

Easy enough:

$client_version = 1000; 
$dotted = join(".",str_split($client_version));

Note that this will always split it so that there is only one character between the dots. If you want something like 1.00.0, you'll need to change your question to explain more about what you're trying to do and what patterns you need.

Upvotes: 3

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