Question

Basically from a database I am getting data that is formatted like this nameofproject101 Now this could continue to increase so eventually it could be nameofproject1001 my question is how can I trim off the number and just get the name of the project. I thought about using substr but since I dont know the length always I cant really do that. Since the numbers differ I dont think I can use str_replace is there any way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

It sounds like something is way off about your database scheme. You should probably try to do refactor/normalize your scheme.

But in the meantime, you can use rtrim() to trim all numbers off of the right side.

$val = rtrim($val, '0123456789');

Examples

Input               Output
nameofproject1001   nameofproject
nameofproject       nameofproject
n4me0fproj3ct1001   n4me0fproj3ct