CHOP from the RIGHT

[tanaka99]

I have a randomly generated string that I want to be able to trim. What I want is to keep the first 6 characters and trim off anything to the right.

Here's an example:

I want to take this J702U8.5A and make it this J702U8

I don't know how ... please help.

[nightowl]

substr() ?

[smook]

$yourstring = "abcdefghi";

$better_string = substr($yourstring,0,5);

and better_string will be the first 5 characters (abcde) 0 is the start, 5 is the length of the string you will return.

check it out on php.net ... it explains it pretty well

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[tanaka99]

Thanks ... that worked stupendously!