----- Original Message ---- > From: Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: sono-io@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; PHP General List <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:15:13 PM > Subject: RE: RIGHT Function? > > [snip] > I have a price field that sometimes contains entries like this: > > 250,(min) > 5.32 > > How can I pull just the price ($5.32 in this example) from this > field > to display on a web page? Is there a RIGHT function in PHP? When I > search the PHP site, I'm being told there isn't one. > > Here's the code I've been using: > [/snip] > > substr will work from right to left. > > If your data is in a variable do this; > > echo substr($myData, -5); > > Why -5? To account for 2 decimal places, the decimal and up to 99 > dollars? > > http://www.php.net/substr > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/string-functions.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
