left

[Marco J.L]

Hello,

how can I change the lenght of an value in basuc it's called LEFT or RIGHT
and MID . I read the filenames but I want to strip the extension from the
filename.

======== SCRIPT ==============
<table style="font-family: tahoma,helvetic a,arial; font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold; color: #000000">
<?php
$handle=opendir ('news');
while (false!==($file = readdir($handle ))) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
echo "\n<TR><TD>$fil e\n";
}
}
closedir($handl e);
?>

</body>
</html>
=======RESULT ========
200503290000.tx t
200503300000.tx t
200503310000.tx t
200504010000.tx t

=======But I want this result : ======
200503290000
200503300000
200503310000
200504010000

=============== ====
Thanx,

Marco J.L.

[Steve]

Re: left

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:58:40 +0200, Marco J.L wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> how can I change the lenght of an value in basuc it's called LEFT or RIGHT
> and MID . I read the filenames but I want to strip the extension from the
> filename.
>
> ======== SCRIPT ==============
> <table style="font-family: tahoma,helvetic a,arial; font-size: 12px;
> font-weight: bold; color: #000000">
> <?php
> $handle=opendir ('news');
> while (false!==($file = readdir($handle ))) {
> if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
> echo "\n<TR><TD>$fil e\n";
> }
> }
> closedir($handl e);
> ?>
>
> </body>
> </html>
> =======RESULT ========
> 200503290000.tx t
> 200503300000.tx t
> 200503310000.tx t
> 200504010000.tx t
>
> =======But I want this result : ======
> 200503290000
> 200503300000
> 200503310000
> 200504010000
>
> =============== ====
> Thanx,
>
> Marco J.L.[/color]

substr ( $name, 0, strlen ( $name ) - strlen ( '.txt' ) ); or
substr ( $name, 0, strrpos ( $name, '.' ) );

I'm probably the odd character out, but you get the idea...


Steve

[Ken Robinson]

Re: left


Marco J.L wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> how can I change the lenght of an value in basuc it's called LEFT or[/color]
RIGHT[color=blue]
> and MID . I read the filenames but I want to strip the extension from[/color]
the[color=blue]
> filename.
>
> ======== SCRIPT ==============
> <table style="font-family: tahoma,helvetic a,arial; font-size: 12px;
> font-weight: bold; color: #000000">
> <?php
> $handle=opendir ('news');
> while (false!==($file = readdir($handle ))) {
> if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
> echo "\n<TR><TD>$fil e\n";
> }
> }
> closedir($handl e);
> ?>
>
> </body>
> </html>
> =======RESULT ========
> 200503290000.tx t
> 200503300000.tx t
> 200503310000.tx t
> 200504010000.tx t
>
> =======But I want this result : ======
> 200503290000
> 200503300000
> 200503310000
> 200504010000
>
> =============== ====[/color]

I'm not sure what your "Subject" line or the first part of your
question has to do with the second part, but you should take a look at
the substr() function <http://www.php.net/substr> and the pathinfo()
function <http://www.php.net/pathinfo>.

Combining those should give you what you're looking for.

Ken