Re: remove from a string

werdna.si...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a function in PHP that will remove a blob from inside a
> string. Similar to the substr() function, but instead of giving me the
> string I want it to remove the string.
>
> For example, I have the string "john goes running" I want to be able
> to tell it to remove 5 characters starting at position 4, which would
> get me "john running"

You could combine str_replace and substr:

$str = 'john goes running';
echo str_replace(substr($str,4,5),'',$str);

Ken
Received on Mon Oct 24 02:09:33 2005