String Trimming

[misahroh]

I'm trying to figure out how I can trim a string variable, say $id so that instead of just trimming it by the "first 3 letters" or whatever, it trims it based on "so-and-so character, and on"

So basically I have strings like "ff7/stuff" and I want it to recognize the "/" and trim it and everything beyond that, so im left with "ff7"

I can't use substr($id, 0, 3); because the first part isnt always 3 characters. Any idea on a simple solution to this? or can it only be done in a complicated way.

[mtmosier]

Use strpos to find the special character(s), then substr it.

[leatherback]

Or use explode to create an array of the variable, and use array_reverse to reverse the variables, and use $array[0] to get the values

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