Re: Replacing first character in a string
| From: | Hugh Bothwell | Date: | Thu, 01 May 2003 03:20:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Replacing first character in a string | ||
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"Lee P. Reilly" <lreilly@lanl.gov> wrote in message
news:3EB02C14.79845983@lanl.gov...
> I wonder if anyone can help me? I have a string something like this:
> ",.00109863,.00219725,.00329588.... and so on....".
>
> If the *first character* in the string is a comma (as in the case above)
> then I want to replace it with "0,", but I cannot find a way to do it.
Of all the replies, only one was
correct, and it was pretty obfuscated.
Try this:
if (substr($str,0,1) == ",")
$str = "0" . substr($str,1);