Remove all characters after a specific character
Solution 1
Shortest one:
echo strtok('test?=new', '?');
If you want to keep the question mark, the solution is almost the same:
echo strtok('test?=new', '?').'?';
Solution 2
You could always try using preg_replace()
as well:
$string = 'test?q=new';
$result = preg_replace("/\?.+/", "", $string);
If, for some reason, you are wanting to keep the ?
in the result... you could also do this:
$string = 'test?q=new';
$result = preg_replace("/\?.+/", "?", $string);
(or, you could use a positive look-behind assertion, as @BlueJ774 suggested,) like this:
$result = preg_replace("/(?<=\?).+/", "", $string);
But ideally, and for future reference, if you are working with a query string, you probably will want to use parse_str at some point, like this:
$string = 'test?q=new';
parse_str($string, $output);
Because that will give you an array ($output
, in this case,) with which to work with all of the parts of the query string, like this:
Array
(
[test?q] => new
)
But normally... you would probably just want to be working with the query string by this point... so the output would be more like this:
Array
(
[q] => new
)
Solution 3
Why not:
$pos = strpos($str, '?'); // ? position
$str = substr($str, 0, $pos);
Solution 4
You can do this with a well-written regex, but the much simpler and quicker way to do it is to explode the string on the "?" character, and use the first element in the resulting array.
$str = "test?=new";
$str2 = explode("?", $str);
$use_this = $str2[0];
$use_this[0] will be "test". If you want to add the "?" back, just concatenate:
$use_this = $use_this."?";
Solution 5
Here is one-liner:
$s = strpos($s, '?') !== FALSE ? strtok($s, '?') : $s;
You can test it by the following command-line:
php -r '$s = "123?456"; $s = strpos($s, "?") !== FALSE ? strtok($s, "?") : $s; echo $s;'
Anish
Updated on November 05, 2021Comments
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Anish over 2 years
Can anyone tell me how to remove characters after
?
in php. I have a stringtest?q=new
and I need to remove the characters from the?
to the end of the string.