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(take the substring of $string starting at position 0, give me 3 
characters)

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hth
jenn

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

&gt; Is there a way to say &quot;Just give me the first n characters of a string&quot; 
&gt; in PHP?  For example, if the string was &quot;johndoe&quot;, and I just wanted the 
&gt; first 3 characters, or &quot;joh&quot;?  I think I could do it with some kind of 
&gt; regex, but I can't seem to come up with one that works.  It will be used 
&gt; in a MySQL query when it's done, like the following:
&gt; 
&gt; $string = &quot;johndoe&quot;;
&gt; $newstring = justgivemetheleft3($string);
&gt; 
&gt; $query = &quot;SELECT * from table where name like &quot;$newstring%&quot;
&gt; 
&gt; I can't say give me everything that matches johndoe, because some of 
&gt; them are john doe, some are john_doe, some are john, etc.  But, the 
&gt; first 3 will always be right.
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