I have come across this code in php.net.
<?php
echo substr('abcdef', 1); // bcdef
echo substr('abcdef', 1, 3); // bcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 4); // abcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 8); // abcdef
echo substr('abcdef', -1, 1); // f
// Accessing single characters in a string
// can also be achieved using "square brackets"
$string = 'abcdef';
echo $string[0]; // a
echo $string[3]; // d
echo $string[strlen($string)-1]; // f
?>
substr('abcdef',1,3) returns 'bcd', the last index is 3 and it returns "bcd" and if I do substr('abcdef',0,4) returns 'abcd'. But I expected substr('abcdef',0,3) to return 'abcd' as compared to the first example. What am I missing here.
How substr($string,$start,$last) works in php?
EDIT: Sorry every body I thought 3rd param is not length and something beyond my understanding...due to my Java background sorry. Thanks for all comments and answers.
substr() is NOT substr($string, $start, $last) it's substr($string, $start, $length). So substr('abcdef', 0, 4) returns abcd because it starts at 0 (a) and it goes for 4 letters.
Also random note: echo substr('abcdef', -1, 1); is inherently redundant since -1 only has a length of 1 so the string might as well be: echo substr('abcdef', -1);
substr('abcdef',0,3) will give an output of abc To get an output abcd you should use substr('abcdef',0,4)
substring works as substr('abcdef',start_position,no. of character you want) so if you want any substring starting from the first character, you should use 0 as start_position.
You can refer to this link.
The first integer tells the position where to start the search, the second one tells the length. In your case 4 characters (start from 0).