Question

I have 2 types of strings:

String 1

<br/>Ask Me A Question<br />

                  |<br/>Search My Apartments<br/>

String 2

Ask Me A Question<br />

                  |<br/>Search My Apartments<br/>

How do I have a function that remove the first <br/> from the String 1 to get String 2, while not touching anything in String 2 if String 2 is passed into the function?

Answer 1

If you want to avoid using a regular expression you can check if <br/> occurs at the start of the string with strpos(). If so, simply lop off the first five characters using substr()

if (strpos($string, '<br/>') === 0) {
  $string = substr($string, 5);
}