Re: removing characters from beginning of string

At 12:49 PM -0700 7/11/00, Bill Zeller wrote:

Hi, You could try: $new_string = ereg_replace("^,", "", $string);

Or, to remove the first comma (regardless of whether it is the first character or not): $new_string = ereg_replace('([^,]*),(.*)', '\\1\\2', $string); Untested; I've been in 'administrator mode' or 'vacation mode' for the past weeks rather than 'programmer mode', so my off-the-top-of-the-head regexps might need some polishing (for example, the second field might need to be '\1\2' instead of '\\1\\2'). -steve

Best Regards, Bill Zeller http://www.scriptmakers.com (in beta) --- Jason Bryner <jason@focusdesigngroup.com> wrote: I have the following string and I need to remove the first comma and leave the rest of the string intact. ,"1" => array("date"=>"7/11/2000", "author"=>"Jason Bryner" Any ideas?

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