Remove everything right of a match in a variable in PHP

Asked Nov 28 '14 at 18:52

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I have a variable that I am handling in PHP and need to delete everything in it after a (known) match of characters, the length before the match and after vary in size. I'm not sure how to do this, for example:

$variable = "1234356ABCtreecar"

The next content of $variable could be:

$variable = "654321123456ABCcartreehouse"

The ABC part would always be present in the content of the variable, which varies in size dynamically, I just need to 'keep' everything before ABC in the variable and disregard everything after, so to end with the content of $variable in the two above examples as:

$variable = "123456"

and

$variable = "654321123456"

Can anyone help with this please?

edited Nov 28 '14 at 19:33

asked Nov 28 '14 at 18:52

omega1

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http://php.net/strpos, http://php.net/substr – Marc B Nov 28 '14 at 18:54
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$test = explode("ABC", $variable);$variable=$test[0]; – Mihai Nov 28 '14 at 18:55
Sorry, my title was incorrect, I meant 'right of' a match, not 'eft of' the match... – omega1 Nov 28 '14 at 19:45
@Mihai Thank you, that works perfectly for me, can you put it as an answer for me to accept it please? Thanks – omega1 Nov 28 '14 at 19:47
This question is locked so this is not possible,good luck with you php learning. – Mihai Nov 28 '14 at 19:59

Remove everything right of a match in a variable in PHP

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