[SOLVED] What function would you use to do this?

[ballhogjoni]

I want to strip a string of all the characters after a certain charater.

 

example: I have a string 'this is a string&more=this is some more stuff'

 

based off of the string above I want to trim or delete all the characters after the &. So my output would just be 'this is a string'.

[thebadbad]

If you want to return the part of the string up to the first occurrence of an ampersand, this will work:

 

<?php
$str = 'this is a string&more=this is some more stuff';
$str = substr($str, 0, strpos($str, '&'));
echo $str;
?>

[rmbarnes82]

<?php
$string = 'this is a string&more=this is some more stuff';
if(($pos = strpos($string, '&')) !== false)
       $string = substr($string, 0, $pos);

 

[kenrbnsn]

Simply use the explode() function:

<?php
$string = 'this is a string&more=this is some more stuff';
list($string) = explode('&',$string);
?>

 

Ken