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Simple PHP Quiz
// 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.
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stetodd commented Jun 7, 2012

@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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