Re: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string

2002-11-07 Thread Marek Kilimajer
str(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 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string Umm, this won

RE: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string

2002-11-07 Thread John Meyer
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 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Extracting first e

Re: [PHP] Extracting first eight characters of a string

2002-11-07 Thread Adam Voigt
Umm, this won't check, only blindly pull the first 8, but: $cutsring = substr($originalstring,0,8); Adam Voigt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (htt