On Saturday 03 August 2002 00:35, webmaster wrote: > I know there has to be an easy way to do this, but I just can't find the > answer. I need to strip out the first part of a text string. I've > figured out out to strip out the last part of a string using the > following: > > $address = (4455 N. 45th St.); > > $test = strstr($address, " "); > echo $test; > > The variable $test returns N. 45th St. without the 4455. Is there a way > to reverse this so I can just return 4455?
Use strpos() to find the position of the first space then substr() to extract from beginning to the space. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* The San Diego Freeway. Official Parking Lot of the 1984 Olympics! */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
