[SOLVED] String manipulation

[KC22]

I am looking to find how to find a substring within a string. I need to pull the string that comes b4 the colon in a value like the following:

 

62:2766f0dd07c471436859ff510c38a618

 

There is not a specified # of characters that come b4 the colon. Can anyone help?!?!

Thanx in advance

[GingerRobot]

I'd use explode:

 

<?php
$str = '62:2766f0dd07c471436859ff510c38a618';
list($before,$after) = explode(':',$str);
echo $before;
?>

[toplay]

Something like this:

 

if (preg_match('/^([^:]*?):/', $string, $matches)) {

   $result = $matches[1];

} else {

   $result = "";

}

 

[KC22]

Both of these worked perfectly! Thanks to both!