Re: Get a specified amount of text?
| From: | Miguel Cruz | Date: | Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:43:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Get a specified amount of text? | ||
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Donald wrote:
> 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"
In PHP there is something called the manual.
http://www.php.net/substr
miguel