how to take out the first charactor of a string?

[mshen]

which function can do this?

Thanks for help.

[jim_keller]

$mystring = substr( $mystring, 1 );

that should do it.

*edit: you don't need strlen($mystring)-1 as the third parameter 🙂

-Jim Keller
http://www.centerfuse.net

[jim_keller]

you can also use $mystring = preg_replace('/^./', '', $mystring);
but that won't strip the character if the first character is a newline ( "\n" ), so only use it for single line strings. I prefer the substr() method though.