RE: substr() problems

["James Meers" <jambo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies, the script was right - but the data was wrong - I had lots of white space at the end of each string, i have used rtrim to solve this:
 
$DB_ref = rtrim($DB_ref," ");

$DB_temp_ref = $DB_ref;

J.


	-----Original Message----- 
	From: James Meers 
	Sent: Fri 06/02/2004 21:32 
	To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
	Cc: 
	Subject:  substr() problems
	
	

	Hi all,
	
	I am trying to use substr() negative start, but I get nothing returned - if i do a positive start then i do get something back, below is my code and a line of what i get returned:
	
	$DB_ref = "210020007";
	
	$DB_temp_ref = $DB_ref;
	
	$DB_sub_ref = substr($DB_temp_ref , 0, 1);
	$DB_sub_ref .= substr($DB_temp_ref , 1, 1);
	$DB_sub_ref .= substr($DB_temp_ref , -1, 1);
	
	echo "$DB_sub_ref - $DB_ref";
	
	RESULT:
	
	"21 - 210020007"
	
	note: 210020007 is an example this is actually within a while statement using mysql_fetch_array from a SQL query - all results are not returning the negative string.
	
	Can anyone help?
	
	
	PHP Version 4.3.3
	
	
	Apache/2.0.47 (Fedora)
	
	Many thanks in advance,
	
	James.