help with regular expressions

Those things that are your best friend or in this case your worst enemy.... regular expressions.

I need help trimming some output stings.

Example of what I am trying to do:

here is my output string" the rest is to be deleted

I am trying to remove everything to the right of the " in the example above. So the final output would be:

here is my output string

thanx in advance...

If the strings will be as simple as that then there is no need for regexp. Have a look at strstr() and substr().

another way of doing this is to use explode

$lala="I am the ' coolest";
$lala=explode("'",$lala);
$lala=$lala[0];
echo $lala;

/chris

I too prefer explode/split. Ugly but quick. :⁾