Cutting off a certin number of chars from a string

[apzer0]

Is there any function that can take off the first insert number here chars from a string?

[LordShryku]

[man]substr[/man]

[Sxooter]

A quick and dirty example:

$string = "abcdefg";
$cut = 2;
$newstr = substr($string,0,strlen($string)-$cut);
print $newstr;