Php get string before last occurrence of character

$string = "Hello World Again".
echo strrchr($string , ' '); // Gets ' Again'

Now I want to get "Hello World" from the $string [The substring before the last occurrence of a space ' ' ]. How do I get it??

asked May 9, 2011 at 15:56

$string = "Hello World Again";
echo substr($string, 0, strrpos( $string, ' ') ); //Hello World

If the character isn't found, nothing is echoed

answered May 9, 2011 at 16:03

meouwmeouw

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This is kind of a cheap way to do it, but you could split, pop, and then join to get it done:

$string = 'Hello World Again';
$string = explode(' ', $string);
array_pop($string);
$string = implode(' ', $string);

answered May 9, 2011 at 16:01

sdleihssirhcsdleihssirhc

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One (nice and chilled out) way:

$string = "Hello World Again";
$t1=explode(' ',$string);
array_pop($t1);
$t2=implode(' ',$t1);
print_r($t2);

Other (more tricky) ways:

$result = preg_replace('~\s+\S+$~', '', $string);

or

$result = implode(" ", array_slice(str_word_count($string, 1), 0, -1));

answered May 9, 2011 at 16:01

zafzaf

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strripos — Find the position of the last occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string

 $string = "hello world again";
 echo substr($string, 0, strripos($string, ' ')); // Hello world

answered Jan 19, 2015 at 7:23

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$myString = "Hello World Again";
echo substr($myString, 0, strrpos($myString, " "));

answered May 9, 2011 at 16:03

TillTill

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You can use a combination of strrpos, which gets the position of the last instance of a given string within a string, and substr to return the value.

answered May 9, 2011 at 16:03

DaveKDaveK

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The correct implementation should be:

$string = "Hello World Again";
$pos = strrpos( $string, ' ');
if ($pos !== false) {
    echo substr($string, 0, $pos ); //Hello World
}

Otherwise if the character is not found it will print nothing. See following case:

$string = "Hello World Again";
//prints nothing as : is not found and strrpos returns false.
echo substr($string, 0, strrpos( $string, ':') );

answered Oct 3, 2012 at 9:55

Arvind BhardwajArvind Bhardwaj

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You could just use:

$string = "Hello World Again";
echo preg_replace('# [^ ]*$', '', $string);

This will work regardless of whether the character occurs in the string or not. It will also work if the last character is a space.

answered Apr 7, 2013 at 23:30

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function cutTo($string, $symbol) {
    return substr($string, 0, strpos($string, $symbol));
}

answered Mar 5, 2014 at 14:50

";
   echo chop($str,"World!");
   // output - Hello 

?>

answered Jun 4, 2021 at 10:33

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