[SOLVED] Dropping first symbol or character from a variable return

[jaxdevil]

I am getting back the results from a variable as $100.00 for example, I would like to make that result be just 100, no $ at the beginning and no .00 at the end. How do you do this?

 

Thanks,

SK

[kenrbnsn]

You can use ltrim and explode:

<?php
$str = '$100.00';
list ($str) = explode('.',ltrim($str,'$'));
echo $str;
?>

 

Ken

[jaxdevil]

Thanks. That is definitely more elegant than what I came up with in the interim...

 

<?php
$string = $rate;
$new_string = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9s]/", "", $string);
$newstring = substr($new_string, 0, -2);
echo $newstring
?>