Question

What function should I use to search for a string in a paragraph and then delete everything including and after that string?

So if I had a paragraph
“Marry had a little lamb and the wolf ate them all. Then marry went to Walmart for more lambs.”

And I used a function to search “lamb” everything including lamb and stuff after it should be deleted. So the resulting text should be “Marry had a little”

Answer 1

For this simple task strstr() would work; starting from PHP 5.3, if you set the last parameter to true.

 print strstr($text, "lamb", TRUE);

This returns only the part until lamb.

The alternative would be fiddling with strpos and substr or for lazy people ,} a regex.