Remove everything after a character in PHP

Question

can any tell how to remove characters after ? in php. I have one string test?=new i need to remove the characters as well as = from that string.

Answer 1

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."?";