[SOLVED] Help removing characters after two letters have occurred

[closet geek]

Say I have these test strings:

 

Test ThingPL324jbkbDSfNKnasdfdkjn324fNJFDjkn

Another TestPL324jbkbDSfNKnasdfdkjn324fNJFDjkn

 

and I want to remove anything that starts with PL* (including PL itself) so I'm left with:

 

Test Thing

Another Test

 

How would I do that?

 

Thanks.

[closet geek]

Anyone? 

[hackerkts]

Hope this helps,

$text = 'Test ThingPL324jbkbDSfNKnasdfdkjn324fNJFDjkn';
$explode = explode("PL", $text);
$text = str_replace($explode[1], '', $text);
echo $text;

[closet geek]

Thanks for your reply!

 

Unfortunately that outputs:

 

"Test ThingPL"

 

when I would like only

 

"Test Thing" to be the output. Any ideas?  ???

[corbin]

The explode example should work fine...

 

Except I think it might need to be (and there's an extra step):

 

$text = 'Test ThingPL324jbkbDSfNKnasdfdkjn324fNJFDjkn';
$explode = explode("PL", $text);
$text = $explode[0];
echo $text;
//Test Thing

[closet geek]

The explode example should work fine...

 

Except I think it might need to be (and there's an extra step):

 

$text = 'Test ThingPL324jbkbDSfNKnasdfdkjn324fNJFDjkn';
$explode = explode("PL", $text);
$text = $explode[0];
echo $text;
//Test Thing

 

Thank you! That works perfectly.