At 12:33 PM -0700 9/24/09, sono...@fannullone.us wrote:
On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Jay Blanchard wrote:

substr will work from right to left.

If your data is in a variable do this;

        Thanks, Jay.  That does the job.

Frank

Frank:

I came to this thread a little late, but the following are some functions I use, namely right(), left() and mid(). These were built-in functions in different language I used many years ago. They just seemed natural to me so I wrote them for php.

Cheers,

tedd

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<?php

// ====== returns the right-most number of characters from a string
// $string = "123456789"
// right($string, 3) returns "789"

function right($string, $length)
        {
        $str = substr($string, -$length, $length);
        return $str;
        }

// ====== returns the left-most number of characters from a string
// $string = "123456789"
// left($string, 3) returns "123"

function left($string, $length)
        {
        $str = substr($string, 0, $length);
        return $str;
        }

// ====== returns the middle number of characters from a string starting from the left
// $string = "123456789"
// mid($string, 3, 4) returns "4567"

function mid($string, $left_start, $length)
        {
        $str = substr($string, $left_start, $length);
        return $str;
        }
?>
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