On Jul 30, 2003, "Joe Harman" claimed that: |Hey could someone help me out here.... | |I need to strip numbers from a passed variable | |ex. 3899007 | |all the numbers will have 990 (so that is the 4th, 5th & sixth |numbers... from the right...) I want to keep everything to the left of |the two 9s... is there an easy way to do that???? | |Joe Harman | |http://www.HarmanMedia.com | Since a problem should be stated in its basic and simplest terms, it appears that you want to simply divide the number by 10000 and take the integer portion: $number=floor($passed/10000);
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