Trimming a string

[magnetica]

Hi all

 

Hope you can help. I have a string and I wanted to trim anything that is past the colon ( : ) in the string.

 

E.g.

  $string = "Magnetica: hell this would be a comment";

 

I want to get it so the output is:

 

Magnetica

 

This is my code so far:

 

            $text   = "Magnetica: hello this is a comment";
                var_dump($text); 
            $trimmed = rtrim($text, ":");
                var_dump($trimmed);

 

But this doesn't work, any ideas?

 

Thanks, Magnetica

[trq]

$string = substr($string, 0, strpos($string, ':'));

[magnetica]

$t = explode(":", $text);

    echo $t['0'];

 

Which will be quicker? Your probably