php and trim

[eva21]

I have the following string:

 

$string = "Roses - Blue (Remember)";

 

Than I have this trim:

$type = trim($string, "Roses - ");

echo $type;

 

When i echo...all i get is "lue (Remember)" When I really want is "Blue (Remember)"...why is it doing this?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Then you must have some other error in your code or the B is actually present but not visible (have you done a "view source" in your browser?), because the posted code does give: Blue (Remember)

 

However, using trim() that way will give unexpected results because it will trim every "R", "o" "s", "e", " ", and "-" from the start and end of the string. You should probably look at using str_replace()

[.josh]

well str_replace() would replace (remove) from beginning and end just the same. And everywhere in-between.

 

should use preg_replace instead, where you can specify beginning of string.