RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question correction

$newstring = substr($string,1,4); FOUR, not FIVE. Doh. -----Original Message----- From: Seb Frost [mailto:seb@raceshoot.com] Sent: 25 July 2001 22:03 To: jeff@webdesigns1.com; PHP Subject: RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question since you know exactly which 4 characters you want to keep you can use a simple string trimming routine. $newstring = substr($string,1,5); No need for complicated regular expressions! - seb -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Oien [mailto:jeff@webdesigns1.com] Sent: 25 July 2001 21:47 To: PHP Subject: [PHP] Regular Expression Question I want to replace a string like this 1B335-2G with this B335. So for all the strings I want to remove the first character and the last three characters. I'm not sure which replace function to use or how to go about it. Thanks. Jeff Oien -- 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