[SOLVED] find the first 2 characters in a url

[samoht]

hello,

 

I know this is easy but I forgot the syntax for just getting the first 2 characters of string (url in my case). can anyone help me?

 

my url value will be numeric, 5 digits, but I only want the first two.

So if the url was: mysite.com/clinic/11501

 

I have already exploded the url path into an array so $path[0] = "clinic" and $path[1] = 11501

How do I get the first 2 characters of $path[1]??

 

[timmah1]

Wouldn't this work?

echo substr("$path[1]",2);

[samoht]

yes thanks I could not remember that to save my life!

 

except it would be:

substr($path[1],0,2);

 

since the first number tells php where to start.