But that will just give you .0. If you have 192.168.100.232 it will return 32. You have to check where the . is and then take the substring from that. Use strpos or similar for that (I do not know if that can check backwards) -----Original Message----- From: Rob W. [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:47 PM To: richgray@xxxxxxxxx Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Removing an aspect of a variable... Tnx. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rich gray" <richgray@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Rob W." <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:44 AM Subject: Re: Removing an aspect of a variable... > substr($variable,0,-2); > > Rob W. wrote: >> Say I have a variable setting an ip address of 192.168.100.0 >> >> I want to be able to remove the last to chr's of that variable ie: .0 >> >> What would be my best solution to do that? >> > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php