[SOLVED] Pulling Right/Left Characters

[mcmuney]

How do I pull a specified number of characters either from the right or left? For example, the output is 123456 and I want to pull, separately, the right 3 characters (result: 456) and the left 2 characters (result: 12).

[trq]

substr().

[effigy]

...or all at once:

 

<pre>
<?php
$nums = array(
	1234,
	12345,
	123456,
	1234567,
	12345678,
	123456789
);
foreach ($nums as $num) {
	preg_match('/\A(\d{2}).*(\d{3})\z/', $num, $matches);
	print_r($matches);
}
?>
</pre>