[jon31]

Hello all,

Say I have the string.. "Hello World, how are you today?"

How would I go about removing everything before the comma (,)? So that I'm left with just " how are you today?"

Any advice would be great. I'm looked on php.net, but the closest thing I could find was trim, which didn't seem to do what I want to accomplish.

Thanks!
Jon Marus

[madmacgames]

I'm sure there are many different way of doing this, but off the top of my head here is an example of how I would do it:

[php]$string = "Hello World, how are you today?";
$string = substr($string, (strpos($string, ',')+1));[/php]

[jon31]

Thanks! That works perfectly.

[Millennium]

Keep in mind that this method will only work when you only have to replace characters at the start of a string.

A more general solution is to use preg_replace(), and simply replace what you've matched with an empty string. That gets the job done in a more flexible manner. If you know you only need to chop off things at the very head of a string, though, substr() is probably faster.