truncate text at specific character?

[duckduckgoose]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to truncate text at a specific character?

For example, I have:

Hallelujah:Ahoy

And I want to return:

Hallelujah

Anyone know how I can do that? I looked at substr, but the # of characters after the colon will change.

[Installer]

echo strtok($str, ':');

Not to mention a hundred other ways using string functions.

[duckduckgoose]

What's a reply without a jab?

Thanks.

[ClarkF1]

you could use explode()

[Installer]

$str = 'Hallelujah:Ahoy';

list($sub_str) = explode(':', $str);
echo $sub_str . '<br />';

$substr = strtok($str, ':');
echo $sub_str . '<br />';

What's a reply without a jab?

I think of it as a nudge.