remove in special place

[Anon]

I have
$text="5|5|5|5|5|";
how can I remove the third '5|' ?

[Anon]

Off the top of my head, you can do something like:

$myString = explode ("|", $text);

This will put $text into an array. You could then delete the 3rd element of the array, and recombine it with:

implode ("|", $myString);

But I am sure there must be an easier approach, maybe using the PHP equivalent of VB's $left, $mid, $right functions.

[Anon]

I found the solution:

$ex = explode("|", $text);
unset($ex[3]);
implode("|", $ex)