On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 14:52 -0400, Ron Piggott wrote:
> How do I display the first 5 characters of a string?  
> 
> $string="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
> 
> my desired output is 
> 
> abcde
> 
> 

substr($string, 0, 5);


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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