Strip characters?

[rrsub]

I'd thought this would be an easy find on Google and PHP but I'm still stuck.

Newbie and I'm trying to strip characters from my variables.

I have a directory where the names are xxxxx.com and xxxxx.edu and xxxxx.org. I need to have xxxxx as the value.

I thought rtrim($text, ".com" would work. What's the alternative?

 

[OSR]

look up the string functions of PHP in the manual....

I found these:
parse_url()
substr()
explode()

The common way to do this is to use substr() and then use another method that will locate the integer position of the occurrence of a seperator -- so u could use strripos() which finds the LAST occurrence of say '.' and then plug in the return value into the substr() function and thusly get a value stripped of '.com','.org',etc...

Rocco is the BOY!!

SHUT YOUR LIPS...

 

[vbkris]

or the split() function or the eregi_replace() functions...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[rrsub]

eregi_replace() works great!

$file = eregi_replace(".com","",$dir);