Need help removing the right characters from string.

[xwishmasterx]

Hello

 

My script is storing images in the database, to make it ready for some smartycode prefix. I wish to just retrieve the value from the database and remove a few characters:

 

example:

2012/05/244bebb53c70825476bb9675d49232c8%s.jpeg => remove the%s just before the extension.

 

Is there a tip to remove like the last 2 characters right before the extension?

[scootstah]

Is there a tip to remove like the last 2 characters right before the extension?

 

Sure, you can use substr_replace.

[xwishmasterx]

I have tried several things but I cannot "target" the coorect 2 characters:( I would love an example^^

[scootstah]

According to your example string this will work:

$str = '2012/05/244bebb53c70825476bb9675d49232c8%s.jpeg';

$str = substr_replace($str, '', -7, 2);

 

However it won't work if you switch to a 3 character extension, like .jpg or .gif.

 

If the text you want to remove is always "%s" then you can simply use str_replace.

 

$str = str_replace('%s', '', $str);

[xwishmasterx]

Thanks a bunch, I totally overlooked the option as I couldn't just strip "s". Problem solved!