Question

Is there a way to remove everything before and including the last instance of a certain character?

I have multiple strings which contain >, e.g.

1. the > cat > sat > on > the > mat

2. welcome > home

I need the strings to be formatted so they become

1. mat

2. home

Answer 1

You could use a regular expression…

$str = preg_replace('/^.*>\s*/', '', $str);

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…or use explode()…

$tokens = explode('>', $str);
$str = trim(end($tokens));

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…or substr()…

$str = trim(substr($str, strrpos($str, '>') + 1));

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There are probably many other ways to do it. Keep in mind my examples trim the resulting string. You can always edit my example code if that is not a requirement.