stripping off the end of a string

[DragonHighLord]

IS there any function that would take off the last character of a string?
If I have $string="Hello World";
How do I make it $sring="Hello Worl";

I don't replace it with a space, because I want the string to actually be one character less and also the string coming in is a variable so the last character that I need to remove is going to be different (well one of 4 characters) if that helps.

Thanks

[rheroux]

The function you're looking for is substr().

[rheroux]

Actually, to clarify, you could do something like this.

$string = "Hello World";

$reartrim = $string - 1;

$string = substr($string,0,$reartrim);

[steved]

Probably need to use the strlen function in there somewhere....

$string = "Hello World";

$string = substr($string,0,strlen($string)-1);

[DragonHighLord]

ok, exactly what I needed,
wandering how I missed that one in manual, guessed I was reading too much too long, o well

thanks much