Shortening length of strings

[Anon]

Hello,

I am rewriting code from asp to php and need some help with a string function.

I want to be able to take a string and reduce its length with php.

For example, how do I take a string such as "elephant" and remove the last three characters?.

I need to modify script for my message board so that the last three letters of a "subject" are removed, so that I can add the letters "Re:" to the beginning of the string. In the above case
'Re:eleph'.

In ASP the fucntion Len(subject,5) would achieve the required result. Is there a comparable function in PHP?

Thanks in advance.

Brian MacCoilín

[marcel]

echo substr("elephant",0,-3);
check `substr' function

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[Anon]

Thank you Marcel