Dear Mark, Thanks for your note but no one really explains the function at all, they just write the function and that's it. Thanks for giving me the correct function name to use, from what I found, substring was the name of the function. Thanking You, Dallas Freeman -----Original Message----- From: Snijders, Mark [mailto:Mark.Snijders@atosorigin.com] Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2003 6:16 PM To: 'Dallas Freeman'; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: Substring ? www.php.net function: substr and you'll see.... please first search, then ask! -----Original Message----- From: Dallas Freeman [mailto:dally2001@bigpond.com] Sent: donderdag 20 maart 2003 9:13 To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Substring ? I know how to use it with MySQL but how do you use the function substring with a variable? Thanks Dallas Freeman -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php