Get a specified amount of text?
| From: | Donald | Date: | Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:08:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Get a specified amount of text? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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In Visual Basic there is a function called left.
usage: left(string, len)
It allows you to get the first 'len' characters of 'string'.
Is there a similar function in PHP?
I have a value:
"3.405"
That I just want to crop to "3.40"
If I pass "3.405" to MySQL it adds it like this: "3.41"
Thanks
-Donald