At 12:33 PM -0700 9/24/09, sono-io@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Jay Blanchard wrote:
substr will work from right to left.
If your data is in a variable do this;
Thanks, Jay. That does the job.
Frank
Frank:
I came to this thread a little late, but the following are some
functions I use, namely right(), left() and mid(). These were
built-in functions in different language I used many years ago. They
just seemed natural to me so I wrote them for php.
Cheers,
tedd
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<?php
// ====== returns the right-most number of characters from a string
// $string = "123456789"
// right($string, 3) returns "789"
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 "123"
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;
}
?>
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