[SOLVED] help with string manipulation...

[rsammy]

i have a sting which is 18 characters in length. the first character starts off with either a 'P' or a 'Q' followed by 17 numerics. (something like this:P12220070806181242 or Q12220071030162349).

 

i do not have enough room on the screen to display this entire string as it is. I want to crop it. would like to display the first character('P' or 'Q') followed by the last 8 digits(06181242 or 30162349). how can i do this? the string should show up as

Q30162349 or P06181242 to be able to save space on the display screen.

 

any help will be greatly appreciated. thanx

[Orio]

<?php

$str = "Q123456789987654321";

echo substr($str,0,1).substr($str,strlen($str)-;

?>

 

Or if the string is always 18 chars long simply replace the strlen($str)-8 with 10.

 

Orio.

[rsammy]

thank u sir! appreciate ur help