Re: chop x amount of characters from the begining of a string

On Tue, May 2, 2006 3:44 pm, Wolf wrote: > Someone has way too much time on his hands... :) If they REALLY had too much time on their hands, they'd have rtfm and used mt_rand() instead. :-) > Rory Browne wrote: >> function chop_two_or_3_characters_from_front_of_string($str){ >> $cut = rand(2, 3); >> return substr($str, $cut); >> } >> >> On 5/2/06, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote: >>> >>> Brad Bonkoski wrote: >>> > Perhaps this will work.. >>> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php >>> >>> it's a long shot brad ;-) >>> >>> > >>> > >>> > Ross wrote: >>> > >>> >> I have a word say 'example' I want to chop of two or 3 chacters >>> from >>> >> the front to leave 'ample' or 'mple'. Is there a php >>> >> function to >>> do >>> this? >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Ross >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm