Use function explode, preg_split, split to split the text string.
$pieces = explode(" ", $address);
echo $pieces[0]; // will output 4455
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Wong
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 1:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] string questions
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.
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