On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:47 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 3:38 PM -0400 3/11/09, Robert Cummings wrote:
>
>>
>> Just because I'm a nice guy... :)
>>
>
> Yeah, me too -- here are three routines I use for cutting the right, left
> and middle portions of strings. These were keyword routines I used in
> FutureBasic -- they seemed to make sense to me so I carried them into php.
>
> <?php
>
> // ====== returns the right-most number of characters from a string
> // $string = "123456789"
> // right($string, 3) returns "123"
>
> function right($string, $length)
> {
> $str = substr($string, -$length, $length);
> return $str;
> }
>
> // ====== returns the left-most number of characters from a string
> // $string = "123456789"
> // left($string, 3) returns "789"
>
> function left($string, $length)
> {
> $str = substr($string, 0, $length);
> return $str;
> }
>
> // ====== returns the middle number of characters from a string starting
> from the left
> // $string = "123456789"
> // mid($string, 3, 4) returns "4567"
>
> function mid($string, $left_start, $length)
> {
> $str = substr($string, $left_start, $length);
> return $str;
> }
> ?>
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
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Tedd,
Just because I'm a nit-picker, your comments are wrong. Exchange the right
and left comments and it's right.
Steve.
