RE: [PHP] first three characters

try using the function substr() $Word = attention $Word_3 = substr ($Word, 0,3) $Word_3 = substr ($Word, 0,4) and so on hope that helps regards Ankur Verma HCL technologies Noida India -----Original Message----- From: Rahul Hari Bhide [mailto:rabhide@ptc.com] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:32 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] first three characters Gurus, How do I extract the first n characters out of a word . I have this- $Word = attention I want - $Word_3 = att $Word_4 = atte $Word_5 = atten this is only extracting first three/four/five characters . What is the right function to use here ?? thx in advance. ~Rahul -- 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