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> From: Jay Blanchard <jblanch...@pocket.com>
> To: sono...@fannullone.us; PHP General List <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:15:13 PM
> Subject: RE: [PHP] RIGHT Function?
> 
> [snip]
> I have a price field that sometimes contains entries like this:
> 
> 250,(min)
> 5.32
> 
>     How can I pull just the price ($5.32 in this example) from this
> field  
> to display on a web page?  Is there a RIGHT function in PHP?  When I  
> search the PHP site, I'm being told there isn't one.
> 
>     Here's the code I've been using:
> [/snip]
> 
> substr will work from right to left.
> 
> If your data is in a variable do this;
> 
> echo substr($myData, -5);
> 
> Why -5? To account for 2 decimal places, the decimal and up to 99
> dollars?
> 
> http://www.php.net/substr
> 
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