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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of
Nathan J. Underwood
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:12 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] [OT] PHP Question


Is there a way to say &quot;Just give me the first n characters of a string&quot; 
in PHP?  For example, if the string was &quot;johndoe&quot;, and I just wanted the 
first 3 characters, or &quot;joh&quot;?  I think I could do it with some kind of 
regex, but I can't seem to come up with one that works.  It will be used 
in a MySQL query when it's done, like the following:

$string = &quot;johndoe&quot;;
$newstring = justgivemetheleft3($string);

$query = &quot;SELECT * from table where name like &quot;$newstring%&quot;

I can't say give me everything that matches johndoe, because some of 
them are john doe, some are john_doe, some are john, etc.  But, the 
first 3 will always be right.
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