RE: [PHP-DB] Need to delete charcters from a string

You were close: $mystr = substr($mystr, 0, -3); -----Original Message----- From: Renaldo De Silva [mailto:cirkit_tt@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 7:36 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Need to delete charcters from a string This dosen't quite do what i need, this atually just displays the last 3 characters of the string removing everything else, I wanted to do the opposite, but thanks anyways. Joe Van Meer wrote: > Why couldn't you use something like this: > > $mystr = substr($mystr, -3); > > Joe > > > Jeroen Timmers <jeroen@start4me.nl> wrote in message > news:003001c1b026$97373cb0$7f6440d4@jeroen... >> you can take the function substr from php in combination with strlen > (lenght >> of a string) >> >> example >> >> $string = "1234567890"; >> $rest = substr($string, 0, strlen($string)-3); // returns "1234567" >> >> Success Jeroen Timmers >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Renaldo De Silva" <cirkit_tt@yahoo.com> >> To: <php-db@lists.php.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net> >> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:56 PM >> Subject: [PHP-DB] Need to delete charcters from a string >> >> >> > I need to delete the last 3 character of a string, what command can i > use >> o >> > do this. >> > >> > -- >> > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >> > >> -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php