Deleting part of a string

[golfinggod]

Hi
Can someone show me how to remove the word "Dave" from the string below.

Dave:Link-1:Link-3:Link-4:Link-5

and then have the new string in a variable.

I thought of using

str_replace

but wasn't sure if it would work

Another alternative for me would be to convert it into an array and then delete the first element. Wasnt sure if that would work either.

Any ideas on any approach would be great

Thanks

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[bubblenut]

Originally posted by golfinggod
I thought of using but wasn't sure if it would work

Well there's an even easier way to find out than posting on a forum. Do you want me to let you in on this closely guarded secret.

/me nervously looks over his shoulder

Try it

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[paulnaj]

Hi again gg,

Both are fine.

But, if the 'name' is always at the start of the string then ...

$str = 'Dave:Link-1:Link-3:Link-4:Link-5';

$name = 'Dave';

$str = substr($str, strlen($name) + 1);
echo $str; // prints 'Link-1:Link-3:Link-4:Link-5'

... will also do the trick (the +1 gets the colon as well)

Paul

[laserlight]

You could try something like:

$str = "Dave:Link-1:Link-3:Link-4:Link-5";
$search = "Dave";
$str = str_replace($search, "", $str);

or

$str = "Dave:Link-1:Link-3:Link-4:Link-5";
$search = "Dave";
if (($pos = strpos($str, $search)) !== false) {
	$str = substr_replace($str, "", $pos, strlen($search));
}

[golfinggod]

Thanks All

Big Help

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