[SOLVED] Need help rid of stuff in a string

[newcoder21]

Hi I new to php and this forum ,

I need some help getting rid of some extra stuff in a string

 

the string will contain info like

 

"i my name is joe (dfdsfds jdsjkfjdsk)"

 

I want to cut out any thing in "(dfdsfds jdsjkfjdsk)"

 

so the string would look like

 

"i my name is joe"

 

so any thing between this "(random info)"

 

is they any way I can just cut off the end of the string starting with this"("  ?

thank you for any help

 

[mikesta707]

you can use regex, or a combination of str_replace, strstr() and strrstr(). try reading the manual on regex, or those functions

[newcoder21]

I tried those before the problem I have is the stuff I have in string changes so I was trying to find a way to chop the string off when it finds the first "("

you can use regex, or a combination of str_replace, strstr() and strrstr(). try reading the manual on regex, or those functions

[.josh]

you can use strpos to find the first occurance of "(" it will return the character position in the string.  You can then use substr to extract the part you want, starting at 0, and using the # returned from strpos for the length.

[newcoder21]

thank you that worked great!!!

you can use strpos to find the first occurance of "(" it will return the character position in the string.  You can then use substr to extract the part you want, starting at 0, and using the # returned from strpos for the length.