note 93913 added to function.substr-replace

Hey everyone, I was noticing that there are a lot of ways below that people are using to write their own string truncation functions, but it kinda seemed like a lot of them went a bit too far out to make any sense to a n00b. Not that I am one anymore, but I though I'd add a note on this topic myself, in hopes that it might help others understand things a little better. Here's a concept that some people don't know about, or remember to use often enough; You can actually pull individual characters out of a string by referencing that string as though it were an array. Example: If I have the string $s = 'cat', I can use $s[0] to actually get out only the first character of that string, 'c'. I use that same principle below, but I just use a loop to iterate through a string and add the characters to the output variable one by one until the $lenth param has been reached, or until the end of the string. I hope this can help someone out! -Admiral Potato <?php function admiralsTruncate($string, $length){ settype($string, 'string'); settype($length, 'integer'); for($a = 0; $a < $length AND $a < strlen($string); $a++){ $output .= $string[$a]; } return($output); } $my_string = 'cfcd208495d565ef66e7dff9f98764da'; echo admiralsTruncate($my_string, 6); // outputs: cfcd20 echo '<br>'; echo admiralsTruncate($my_string, 9); // outputs: cfcd20849 ?> ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 166.70.205.28 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/93913 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93913/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93913/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93913/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93913/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93913/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93913/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93913 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/93913 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php