how about this:
$cutstring = substr(preg_replace("\W","",$originalstring),0,8);
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Voigt [mailto:adam@;cryptocomm.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:10 AM
To: John Meyer
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string
Umm, this won't check, only blindly pull the first 8, but:
$cutsring = substr($originalstring,0,8);
Adam Voigt
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On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 10:06, John Meyer wrote:
> How do I extract only the first eight characters (alpha-numeric) in a
string.
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