substr()

[jacquesy]

Is it possible to use substr() counting from the end inwards instead of the start in?

e.g.

$string = "hello how are you today";

$string = substr($string,0,2);

so the resulting value of $string will be:

"hello how are you tod"

and not:

"he"

Thanks😃

[superwormy]

www.php.net/substr

www.php.net/strrev

[Lotta]

Maybe I’m missing the point… but

$string = "hello how are you today";
$string = substr($string,0,21); // returns " hello how are you tod"

or you can write

$string = substr($string,0,(strlen($string)-2)); // returns " hello how are you tod"

If you want to count backwards, you can write like this

$string = substr($string,-2); // returns "ay"