Srting related help needed

Hello,

Need help, please help me out:

a string is "test-5248-87dd133a6d" or "abc-def-5248-87dd133a6d". I am trying to take out only the "test" or abc-def" from the string.


Or Trying to remove "-5248-87dd133a6d" part from the string. rem: -5248- is constant, "-87dd133a6d" is variable.

Thank you.

 

Assuming that your string is in a variable called $s...

$s = "test-5248-87dd133a6d";
$endPos = strpos($s, "-5248-87dd133a6d");
$s = substr($s, 0, $endPos);

For more info on how this works, do a Google search on "php strpos" and "php substr".

 

this should work, 2 methods

$string = "test-5248-87dd133a6d";

// Remove all after test
// Simply find -5248- and any character after it and remove it
$new_string = preg_replace('/-5248-.*/', '', $string);

// Remove all before constant -5248-
// Match every character ( . ) and repeat ( * ) as long as its followed by a given string, but dont include string in match ( ?=string ) This is a posibive lookahead
$new_string = preg_replace('/.*(?=-5248-)/', '', $string);

Code (markup):

 

Thank you guys. Both worked fine. Thank you again.