[SOLVED] Quick substr Question

[JSHINER]

I currently use:

 

substr($var], 3, 50)

 

Which turns "123text" to "text"

 

How can I get "123text123" to "text"

[MmmVomit]

substr($var, 3, 4)

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

[JSHINER]

But I need it scalable incase text is texttexttext (More than 4 characters)

[MmmVomit]

You're going to have to define the problem better.  What exactly are you trying to do?

[JSHINER]

The whole problem is I've had a very long day and solved the issue with substr($var, 3, -6)

 

Every $var started with 123 and ended with 123456 so I just needed what was in the middle. Forgetting that using -6 would do the trick, I decided to post here.

 

Coffee time

 

Thanks for the help.

[trq]

That explains VERY little about your problem. Is your question actually how do I retrieve all the letters between a set of numbers? ?

[JSHINER]

Sorry, the problem was solved. In the example I simply used #'s to separate the pieces.

 

I needed to get rid of the first 3 characters, and last 6.

 

So let's say we had ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO - I only wanted DEFGHI.

[MmmVomit]

Actually, I didn't know that trick with the negative numbers.  I would have suggested using strlen.

 

Good to know.