Question

Does anyone know how to remove the first few characters from a string and remove them in PHP.

Like in the string “str_filename” I need to remove the “str_” and save the “filename”.

But it has to remove as many charactors as it takes to get to the “_”.

In other words, i need to remove all the characters up until and including the first “_” in the string.

Answer 1

You can do this:

if (strpos($string, '_') !== false)
   $string = substr($string, strpos($string, '_') + 1);

It works as you can see here: http://codepad.org/g12ENLGY

Note: The if is useful because your string could not have the ‘_’ char.