note 58610 added to function.substr

As I didn't find it while I was looking for it.... A simple way to extract username from a mail address : pincopallino@hotmail.com -> pincopallino function EXTRACT_USERNAME($address) { $pos = strpos($address, "@"); if ($pos === false) { echo " @ not found in : $address, seems not to be an e-mail address <br/>\n"; } /*else { echo " @ found in $address at column $pos <br/>\n"; }*/ $username = substr("$address", 0, $pos); return($username); } Hope I saved a 10 minutes work to someone ! ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+58610 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58610&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58610&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58610&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58610&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58610&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58610&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58610&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+58610&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php