note 36249 added to function.substr

I often had the problem to need a substring without knowing the exact length, but the sign or the position at which the string should end. JavaScript supports this feature, but php doesn't, as far as I know. Now, this function here does it: function substring($str,$start,$stop){ if(is_string($stop)) $end=strlen($str)-(strlen($str)-strpos($str,$stop)); else $end=strlen($str)-(strlen($str)-$stop); return substr($str,$start,$end); } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php Edit Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+36249 Delete Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+36249&report=yes Reject Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+36249&report=yes