Re: RIGHT Function?
| From: | Tommy Pham | Date: | Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:19:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RIGHT Function? | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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----- Original Message ----
> From: Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@pocket.com>
> To: sono-io@fannullone.us; PHP General List <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:15:13 PM
> Subject: RE: [PHP] RIGHT Function?
>
> [snip]
> I have a price field that sometimes contains entries like this:
>
> 250,(min)
> 5.32
>
> How can I pull just the price ($5.32 in this example) from this
> field
> to display on a web page? Is there a RIGHT function in PHP? When I
> search the PHP site, I'm being told there isn't one.
>
> Here's the code I've been using:
> [/snip]
>
> substr will work from right to left.
>
> If your data is in a variable do this;
>
> echo substr($myData, -5);
>
> Why -5? To account for 2 decimal places, the decimal and up to 99
> dollars?
>
> http://www.php.net/substr
>
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http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/string-functions.html