Capturing first 6 characters in a string

[Rottingham]

Ok So I want the pro way to do this.

 

I have a string that I just want to pick the first six characters out. My string looks like

 

CEE500 - Open

 

I just want the CEE500. Now I know this is like 'duh'... But, I've tried split ('-', $string) and it returns the whole string, I've tried preg_split('/ /', $string) and I get the whole string.

 

I could do $string=$string[0].$string[1]...$string[5] but that' a lousy way...

 

Any suggestion?

[teamatomic]

$str='CEE500 - Open';

$string=substr("$str", 0, 6);

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[Ken2k7]

Is there a reason in wrapping $str in quotes?

[teamatomic]

Habit. As examples,

I prefer: "this is a $var to echo out"

over

'this is a'.$var.'to echo out'

and file("$file")

over

file($file)

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic