deleting extra string text...

[Anon]

I have a string that I want to delete everything after a certain character. I have looked at using rtrim, but as far as I can tell it is not what I'm looking for...

The string I receive looks like this...

item 1, some text

I want to chop it at the "," so all I have in my variable is "item 1"

I think this is pretty easy, can anybody tell me what I'm missing?

thanks in advance,
--TK

[crusty_php]

<?
$string = "item 1, some text";
print substr($string, 0, strrpos($string, ','));
?>

[Anon]

that worked...

excellent! thank you

[Anon]

What if the text you receive has another comma in it?

You could also use:

$string = "item 1, some text, and more";
$string_new = explode(",", $string);
print $string_new[0];

-Paul