Question

I need to remove the third character of a string. Here’s what I tried.

$my_string['2'] = "";

This worked find, but when I tried to put this variable in a MySQL query, it returned errors.

What is the best way to remove a certain character (character 3 in my case) from a string?

Answer 1

Try out substr_replace.

For example:

$new_string = substr_replace($my_string, '', 2, 1);