Which PHP function??? substr??

I have a string that returns a session ID with the customer name at the beginning and an underscore after the name....

Ex.
fredsmith_e33r3555fsd

I want to read the text from a string and return the name only (everything up to the "underscore").

In the example above, I want to return only "fredsmith".

I have toyed around with "substr", but can't seem to figure out how to get PHP to stop reading at the underscore and return the name.

Can someone point me to the function I am looking for and any other help that you feel like providing.

Regards from Georgia, USA.

Bill

Forget substrings. Check out the documentation for functions like split(), explode(), preg_split(), preg_match(), etc.

$my_sess_id = "fredsmith_e33r3555fsd";
$my_name = substr($my_sess_id, 0, strpos($my_sess_id, "_"));

No, don't forget substring:

$user = "fredsmith_e33r3555fsd";
$var = substr($user, 0, strpos("_"));
echo $var;

This works -- I've tested it.

by the way, I did not copy evildj, thank-you very much 😃

He beat me too it!

I meant "I did not copy evildj".

$x = explode('_', $customer);

and then $x[0] is the name and $x[1] is the number

err, I was beaten. 🙁 Took too long to reply. :p

Thanks

Originally posted by evildj

From a little place we like to call "The Manual"...

Wow, that is quite original, and hilariously witty.

Thanks for the input. It's always helpful to see how others do things. That's why PHP is so great, there is more then 1 way to do the same thing.

Regards,
Bill

You're welcome.