Re: How to remove only the last character?
| From: | Ian Packer | Date: | Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:32:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to remove only the last character? | ||
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Hiya,
Try this, *probably* more efficient but I don't know for sure.
<?
$string = 'testing 1 2 3 testing';
echo $string . "\n";
$string[strlen($string)-1] = "\0";
echo $string . "\n";
?>
Regards,
Ian Packer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Douglas" <replaceafill@yahoo.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 1:21 PM
Subject: [PHP] How to remove only the last character?
> Good day.
>
> Is there any PHP function that removes only the last
> character of a string and returns the new string?
>
> I'm looking in the manual and I can't find anything.
>
> Until now I'm doing this:
>
> $var=substr($var,0,strlen($var)-1)
>
> Is this the most efficient way?
>
> Thanks.
>
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