Remove charater between / and +

[nate.s]

Hi,

I am trying to remove the words between / and +

Example:
=ft myers / sw florida+

Desired output would be
=ft myers+

Another example
=flagstaff / area+

Desired output would be
=flagstaff+

I think I need a trim function but cant get it to work.

Thanks for any feedback.

Nate

[hash]

You could use php string manipulation functions http://nz.php.net/strings have a look at strpos() and substr()

Or you could use regular expressions http://nz2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

[glenngould]

$myString='=ft myers / sw florida+';
 
$myString = preg_replace("/\h*\/.+/","+",$myString);
echo $myString;

[nate.s]

Thank you both for your replies...ended up using the code Glen supplied and it work great.

Thanks again,

Nate

[phoenixtears]

its always advisable to use templates but its better to create own method rather than posting on web forms for help. Using simple arrays will solve this prob very easily but coders want short cuts even in easier things this only reduces coding capability nothing more. Thats not advisable.

[Salathe]

Bear in mind that glenngould's code would truncate strings containing a forward slash without a suffixed plus symbol.

For example:

$myString='=ft myers / sw florida';
 
$myString = preg_replace("/\h*\/.+/","+",$myString);
echo $myString; // =ft myers+ 

A more explicit pattern which does not have this problem is ~\h*/[^+]*+\+~ which for the above code would end up echoing =ft myers / sw florida as expected.