How to remove/replace/delete all text after a certain string

I am trying to remove all text after the phrase "(paste this code" within a variable.

I understand preg_replace can do this but how?

 

echo substr($str, 0, stripos($str, "(paste this code"));

PHP:

Should work, unless you wanted to include the paste this code bit

 

thanks deception..unfortunatley, i dont have php5 on my server, so it gives me a function undefined.

 

u could use preg_match to find the string after the paste this thing...

 

the content after the Paste string is always different, otherwise i would just use str_replace on that as well. unless im misunderstanding out preg_match works.

 

with preg_match you can get any string with paste this behind...

 

<?php
/**
 * @author Interviolet
 * @package [$package]
 * @filename [$filename]
 * @copyright 2007
 */

function clean_phrase( $phrase )
{
	if( preg_match( "~(\(paste this code)(.*)~", $phrase, $clean ) )
	{
		return str_replace( $clean[2], "", $phrase );
	}
}
function clean_phrase2( $phrase )
{
	if( preg_match( "~(\(paste this code)(.*)~", $phrase, $clean ) )
	{
		return substr( $phrase, 0, strpos( $phrase, $clean[2] ) );
	}
}

$phrase = "(paste this code some more text here";

echo clean_phrase( $phrase );
echo "<br />\n";
echo clean_phrase2( $phrase );
?>

PHP:

 

If thats really all you need :

<?php
$str = '(paste this code' . 'this will be stripped';
substr($str, 0, strlen('(paste this code'))
?>

PHP:

 

thanks for the help guys, got it to work with this:

echo(substr($content1, 0, strpos($content1, '(paste this code')));