Ignore first 2 7 characters

[CanMan2004]

Hi all

I have the value

[code]$where = $rows['areaname'];[/code]

If you print [code]$where[/code], this outputs a code, which is something like

76568765-12322

or

98976528-43266

I want to do the above but ignore the first 8 characters, so for the above, it would output

-12322

or

-43266

Can this be done easily, or shall I rebuild how this is added to the database?

Any help would be great

thanks  Ed

[JasonLewis]

you can use the explode function.
[code=php:0]
$where = $rows['areaname'];

$split = explode("-", $where);
echo "First 8: ".$split[0]."<br> Second 5: ".$split[1];
[/code]

there is some other ways as well. but i prefer using arrays. i love my arrays. :)

[kenrbnsn]

There are many ways to do this, the easiest uses the function [url=http://www.php.net/substr]substr()[/url]

[code]<?php
$str = '76568765-12322';
echo substr($str,8);
?>[/code]

To ProjectFear: Your method doesn't produce the output the OP requested.

Ken

[CanMan2004]

thanks