RE: [PHP-DEV] Just a little question
| From: | Ford, Mike [LSS] | Date: | Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:46:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Just a little question | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hacook [mailto:hacook@free.fr]
> Sent: 19 November 2002 09:48
>
> I have a chain charachter that look like this :
> *text*text*text*text*text....etc
> I would like to cut off the FIRST star but not the others
> My chain is REALLY long.
> I made that script :
>
> $maxi=strlen($resultats)-2;
> $nb = 0;
> while ($nb<=$maxi) {
> $results2 = $results2.$results[1+$nb];
> $nb = $nb+1;
> }
>
> where $results is the chain
> It works perfectly but it takes over 5 minutes !
> Do you have any idea on how to make it faster ?
(a) wrong list -- you want php-general@php.lists.net
(b) $results2 = substr($results, 1);
Cheers!
Mike
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