note 36249 deleted from function.substr by aidan
| From: | aidan@php.net | Date: | Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:45:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 36249 deleted from function.substr by aidan | ||
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Note Submitter: sap_urg@gmx.de
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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);
}