RE: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string
| From: | John Meyer | Date: | Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:19:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string | ||
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how about this:
$cutstring = substr(preg_replace("\W","",$originalstring),0,8);
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Voigt [mailto:adam@cryptocomm.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:10 AM
To: John Meyer
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string
Umm, this won't check, only blindly pull the first 8, but:
$cutsring = substr($originalstring,0,8);
Adam Voigt
adam.voigt@cryptocomm.com
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 10:06, John Meyer wrote:
> How do I extract only the first eight characters (alpha-numeric) in a
string.
>
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