mpsn Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Hi, how do I extract a substring? I just want to store "car" in a variable for other uses: Here is the original string: car/red/blue/gun/hit Any help much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWilliams Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 In that specific example you could do $car = substr('car/red/blue/gun/hit', 0, 3); http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Not enough information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpsn Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 I figured it out, if I have: $originalString=car/red/blue/gun/hit then just use: $originalStringToArray=explode("/",$originalString); $firstItem=$originalStringToArray[0] Done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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