Stripping characters from a string

[studot]

Hi,

How to you strip all characters from a string, other than the first one?

i.e. if the string was "Stuart" how do you get to "S"?

Cheers,

StuG

[Anon]

try using substr and strlen:

$firstchar = substr($str,1,strlen($str));

I haven't tested it. But there is tons of docs and examples on PHP.net under the substr function.

good luck
andre @ performance technologies

[Anon]

yup,

he's right.

Cheers

[[deleted]]

On the other hand, PHP let's you cheat and point to character in strings asif the string was an array:

$sString = 'hello';
$sFirstchar = $sString[0];
echo $sFirstchar;