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PHP: Remove first Character from String

Question by Guest | 2015-06-08 at 09:44

I would like to cut off the first character from the front of an arbitrary string using PHP.

This first character can be an arbitrary letter or an arbitrary number and also the length of the string can vary.

Does someone know any PHP function for this?

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Avatar Stefan Trost
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You can use the PHP function substr() for this.

Here is a small example:

$s = 'abc';

echo substr($s, 1);  // bc

We have the string "abc" and using substr() we are cutting off the first letter. Therefore, the result will be "bc".

When using another number instead of 1, the corresponding number of characters will be removed instead.
2015-06-09 at 12:21

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