String problem

[Chris_Evans]

Hi there,
If I have a sentence, with a URL in (it starts with a url) for example:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/newthread.php?s=&action=newthread&forumid=10"Some kind of text here etc etc.

How do I go about selecting all the text up to the " and putting it into a variable therefore getting rid of the latter text?

Thanks in advance,

Chris Evans

[LordShryku]

Strictly speaking, if you just wanted all the text up to the first ", then [man]substr[/man] and [man]strpos[/man] would suffice.

if(($pos = strpos($string, '"')) !== false) {
   echo substr($string, 0, ($pos + 1));
}

[TheDefender]

Alternatively, you could look at explode...

$theurl = 'http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/newthread.php?s=&action=newthread&forumid=10"Someothertext';

$theurl = explode('"', $theurl);
echo $theurl[0];

[Chris_Evans]

Hi - superb, thanks to both! 🙂