string problems

[phporcaffeine]

$data = "bin/IT_Department/ryan.vpg";

$trm = ltrim (strtolower($directory), "bin/");

echo $trm;

//RESULT IS:

"t_department/ryan.vpg";

Why is it taking the " I " along with " bin/ "?

PLEASE HELP!@#, lol

TIA

[michaellunsford]

because "I" is in your strip list :-)

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[obsidian]

if you're after exact matching like that, why not use str_replace or preg_replace instead?

[code]
$data = "bin/IT_Department/ryan.vpg";
$data = str_replace("bin/", "", $data);
echo $data;
[/code]

[phporcaffeine]

Call it a moment of absentism but I was trying to do a regex match with ltrim() thats why it was confusing me. As suggested, I fixed the issue with str_replace.

[Barand]

.. or

[code]$data = "bin/IT_Department/ryan.vpg";
$data = substr($data, 4);[/code]