String Search

[jackie_patil]

Hi All,

I am searching function which gives me the string which is before the matching
character

e.g. In "jackie_patil" if I have to search the string which is before "_"then that function must return "jackie".

[bough]

Hi Jackie

One way of doing it would be using a regular expression, and worth reading up on the preg_match function in PHP.

I have just been learning the functions myself and the code below should give you the charactors from the beginning of the string up to the "_" charactor

$pattern = '/^(.*)_/';
$string = 'jackie_patel';
preg_match($pattern,$string,$matches)
echo $matches[1]

This is a very basic expression and you may want to make your search more specific ie search for whites spaces, etc