On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:46, Chris Payne wrote: > I am building a dynamic MySQL query for a project I am working on, but > there are instances where it products WHERE AND instead of WHERE city etc > â.. due to the nature of the system I am developing. My question is, how > can I remove the FIRST â ANDâ from a string if it is present, but leave all > other AND statements in the string? > > I would really appreciate any help on this. I can do a find and replace on > a string no problem, but just want it to be removed IF it is the FIRST word > in the string. You can use preg_replace(), but the better solution would be to revise your logic so that you produce correctly formed SQL in the first place. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-db ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php