Remove last word

[aeroswat]

How do you remove the last word in a string no matter the length and no matter what the word is?

[seventheyejosh]

like so?

 

$test='this is a test string';
	$ar=explode(' ',$test);
	$ar[count($ar)-1]='';

	$new=implode(' ',$ar);

	echo $new; // gives 'this is a test'

	exit;

[aeroswat]

like so?

 

$test='this is a test string';
	$ar=explode(' ',$test);
	$ar[count($ar)-1]='';

	$new=implode(' ',$ar);

	echo $new; // gives 'this is a test'

	exit;

 

ya. I thought there might have been some functions that easily handled this other than breaking the string down into an array of space delimited strings and then piecing it back together. Thank you tho

[alpine]

another variant

<?php

$test = 'this is a test string';

echo implode(" ", array_slice(str_word_count($test, 1), 0, -1));

// this is a test

?>