Echo some of var

alirezaok

i have a variable.
i want echo my var
but i want echo contenet of my var until first * mark

example:

$var = "adsaasf sfdsdfsdf sdfsdasdfsdfsdf";

echo $var;

i don't want echo all of contenet of my var
i want echo "adsaasf" only of this var for example

do anyone can help me?

Weedpacket

echo substr($var,0,strcspn($var,'*'));

alirezaok

thank you

excusme, I want if my $var has * it is go

echo substr($var,0,strcspn($var,'*'));

else

it is echo 1/3 of var long.

Please Help Me

thank you

leatherback

something like:

if(strpos($var, "*") === false)
  {
    $len = settype(strlen($var)/3, "integer");
   echo substr($var, 0,  $len);
  }
else
  {
echo substr($var,0,strcspn($var,'*')); 
  }

alirezaok

thank you very much
but i want a problem

at this line:

echo substr($var, 0,  $20);

if 20'st character of sentence in $var is in a word then word will broken
i want if 20'th character is not space character it goes front until to arrive space character and then show it.

example

this are a book
7'st of charcter is "r" but it should showes "this are" no "this ar"