> I meant i want to get rid of the braces. e.g. get the text up to the start > of the first brace and ignore anything from the first brace onwards
I don't see any braces, either. For the record: brace = {} bracket = [] parentheses = () comma = , semicolon = ; To extract the partial string leading to the first parentheses: $var="this is how we do (50 cents feat. the game)"; $stringpart = substr($var,0,strpos($var,"(")); -- Crash Please reply to the group. E-mail is blocked. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php