Removing <br>'s at the start of a string only

[MyCode]

Hello,

 

I am looking for a solution to remove one or multiple <br>'s from the start of a string.

 

Example:

 

I am loading a string from my mysql database and the content is:

 

<br><br>This is my string

 

It can be that it's just one <br>, but it could also be three or four <br>'s

 

So what I am looking for is some way to get rid of the <br>'s but only at the beginning of the string as there will be some <br>'s inside the content which should stay.

 

Any idea how to solve this?

[wildteen88]

Remove <br />'s from start of string

$str = '<br /><br /><br />hello world there<br /><br />bo hoo!';
$str = preg_replace('~^(\<br /\>)+~', '', $str);

echo $str;

[Pikachu2000]

I just quickly tested this, but it seems to work. Takes off any leading and trailing <br>, <br />, <br/>, <br >. etc. and leaves the rest of the string alone.

 

$string = "<br /><br /><br  /><br ><br/>string of<br><br /> words <br /><br>";
echo trim($string, '<br />');
// RETURNS string of<br><br /> words

 

 

 

[MyCode]

Thanks for your quick answer(s).

 

Everything seems to work wonderful now

 

Thanks again

[salathe]

trim($string, '<br />');

 

Just to make it clear, this code will remove more than just <br> tags from the start of a string. Given breakfast the result would be eakfast, given <b>robber</b> would result in obbe.