PHP: Cut first and last Character from String

You can use the PHP function substr() for cutting off your string at the front and at the back.

Here is a code example for its usage:

$s = "abcde";

echo substr($s, 1, -1);  // bcd

In this example, we are transforming the string "abcde" into "bcd". You can remove the first and the last character by passing 1 as second parameter and -1 as third parameter to substr().

The second parameter is determining at which position the resulting substring should start. Because the first character within a string has the position 0, we are passing 1 so that we can get all characters after the first character.

Because we do not know how long our sub string will become exactly, we use -1 as third parameter. A negative value ensures that the characters are counted from behind and with -1 we are cutting off exactly one character from the end of the string.
Last update on 2024-01-16 | Created on 2015-06-27

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echo substr($s, 0, 0); // ..??
2019-04-27 at 07:05