Re: Quick Help

Curtis- First, posting this three times in 30 minutes is an ass thing to do. That said go here : http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/using-strings.php The end will discuss substr() which will help you. Of course manual : http://www.php.net/manual/function.substr.php Is available as well. Philip -- be outside the box. On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Curtis, Lorenzo wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to read the first three characters (numbers) of a > variable? > > I want to read only the first three numbers from a string of numbers all > saved in a mySQL text field > with no delimiters. > > -Lorenzo > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >