On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 14:52 -0400, Ron Piggott wrote: > How do I display the first 5 characters of a string? > > $string="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; > > my desired output is > > abcde > > substr($string, 0, 5); Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php