note 28640 added to function.strchr

joao's code works, but only if you want to get the text before the last occurence of the character. Here's another way that will output all the text before the first occurence. $stringA = "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"; $toFind = "Fish"; $result = str_replace( strchr($stringA, $toFind), "", $stringA); echo $result, $toFind; Will print "One Fish" Or Just: echo str_replace( strchr($stringA, $toFind), "", $stringA ), $toFind; -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strchr.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+28640 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+28640 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+28640