Function similar to substr();

[iAreCow]

Hey there,

Im facing a (quite simple?) problem, I have a string, and I'd like to extract letters from it till a certain letter (similar to substr, but it only allows extracting from and to)

 

$word = "This is the sentence";

 

Lets say I'd like to extract till letter "e", so it would return "This is th"

 

Regards

[Garethp]

preg_match('~^(.*?)e~', $word, $Matches);

$word = $Matches[1];

[cags]

Garethp's suggestion is certainly viable providing there is always going to be an 'e' in the input, if there isn't it won't match anything, but maybe thats what you want? If you want the whole string if no e is matched you could use...

 

preg_match('~^(.*?)(?:e|$)~', $input, $Matches);
echo $Matches[1];

[Daniel0]

strtok($word, 'e');

 

No need for regex.