cut characters from variable

Hello,

I want to cut the last 5 characters from a variable.

For example if my variables are:

$word1="keyboard";
$word2="1234testwordkkdjs";

when I echo them I wanted to show:
key for echo $word;
1234testword for echo $word2;

Just not to show the last 5 characters from every variable.

Thank you!

 

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

 

matthewrobertbell your link helped me ...thank you very much ><
that's what I was looking for

 

you could also look up explode which is another option, sort of like substr

http://www.php.net/explode

 

explode() is nothing like substr().

How would you do this with explode()?

 

nico's right , substr is the only easy option

 

Its not just the easiest option. You cant use explode to do this, plain and simple.

 

Use the swirly brace, it's quicker.

i.e.

$var = 'test';

echo $var{2};

PHP:

Output:

s (3rd character, Starts from 0)

Jay

 

Thats not what he wants though.

 

matthewrobertbell's link is what I was looking for

<?php
$var = "question";
$varwithoutlast5characters = substr("$var", 0, -5);
echo $varwithoutlast5characters;
?>

PHP:

Thank you all!

 

Don't need quotes:

<?php
$var = "question";
$varwithoutlast5characters = substr($var, 0, -5);
echo $varwithoutlast5characters;
?>

Code (markup):

 

Sorry to say that I need quotes ... First time I also had tried without but it doesn't work..it works only like I posted.
:-??

 

You must have done something wrong then because theres no need for the quotes when you're just specifying a variable. It actually slows PHP down if you put the quotes in.

 

I know that there's no need for the quotes ...that's why first time I tried without quotes... But I don't know why it doesn't work only with quotes ... anyway I am glad to see it working ..Thank you again for help.

 

substr grabs data from a string, explode splits data with a delimiter into arrays.

 

If you wanted to break a string into an array of component characters, use preg_split.

<?php
$str = 'string';
$chars = preg_split('//', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
print_r($chars);
?>

PHP:

 

LOL @ the explode option....