RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

I hope my later message clarifys what I mean. - seb -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Oien [mailto:jeff@webdesigns1.com] Sent: 25 July 2001 22:05 To: PHP Subject: RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question Aren't the trims just for white space? Jeff Oien > since you know exactly which 4 characters you want to keep you can use a > simple string trimming routine. I forget the name of the function in php > but it's there and it'll be something like > > trimstring($string,1,5); > > or something like that. No need for complicated regular expressions either > way. > > - 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 > -- 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