Re: RIGHT Function?

----- Original Message ---- > From: Tommy Pham <tommyhp2@yahoo.com> > To: PHP General List <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:19:51 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] RIGHT Function? > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Jay Blanchard > > To: sono-io@fannullone.us; PHP General List > > 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 > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/string-functions.html If you want to retain the ',(min)' for other uses, you'll have to do it in PHP http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php stripos() and substr() will do it if you don't want to deal with/learn regex