note 15744 modified in function.substr-replace by zak

If you would like to remove characters from the start or end of a string, try the substr() function. For example, to remove the last three characters from a string: $string = "To be or not to be."; $string = substr ($string, 0, -3); --was-- To remove the last two characters of any string, use this: <?php $pos = strlen($var) - 2; $var = substr_replace($var, '', $pos, 2); ?> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-replace.php