finding characters in a string

[robcrozier]

hi, what I'm trying to do is read a string until i come across a certain character and then chop the rest of the string off so i am only left with the first half up to the character that i searched for. Another thing though, i may need to search for the second or third occurrence of this character before truncating the string. Can this be done too?

 

cheers!

[Orio]

You got two simple options (and probably much more):

 

<?php

function str_cut1($string, $char)
{
return substr($string, 0, strpos($char));
}

function str_cut2($string, $char);
{
$temp = explode($char, $string);
return $temp[0];
}

?>

 

 

Orio.