[SOLVED] How to strip the last "s" from the word Shows?

[ballhogjoni]

Any ideas? I thought str_replace would work but it doesn't.

[cytech]

Hello,

 

I think this might be able to help you:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.strrchr.php

 

[ballhogjoni]

No that doesn't do what I need.

[cytech]

Give this a go then:

 

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.strrpos.php

 

 

Once you know the position of the element you can substr it.

[bungee]

How about the function http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php It is what I used to do the same thing.  I am new to php but from what I gather, you tell it where to start and how much to keep.  If the length changes often then you could just use the size of the variable to tell it to keep all but the last letter.  I have no clue as to how efficient it is though.

 

I should have read it first.

 

$rest = substr("abcdef", 0, -1);  // returns "abcde"

[ballhogjoni]

this is what I was looking for, so it worked after all.

substr(Shows, 0, (strlen(Shows)-1));

[DarkWater]

<?php
$string = "Shows";
$string = rtrim($string, 's');
echo $string;
?>

 

If you want a more comprehensive solution that will strip ANY word of a trailing 's':

<?php
$string = "Here, we have some words with letters on the end.  Enjoy the shows!";
$string = preg_replace('/([a-z]+?)s(?=\s|(\b.)?$)/i', '$1', $string);
echo $string;