PHP substring delete

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How do I remove entire characters from a string starting from a particular string position to another position, and shift the rest to merge with this starting position?

I'm working with HTML contents. So take this for example.

</a></h4><p class="pdesc">When a private satellite encounters .... and it is found to ...</p></div></div>.....<p class="pdesc">Before leavingon his .... </p> ...... <p class="pdesc"> .... </p>

So now I want to remove all characters in between

<p class="pdesc"> - to - </p>.

of every occurrence.

I can search for this (strpos) and get the starting and the ending positions, but then manually deleting them and shifting strings from then on will be too tedious.

Is there a built in function or a simple way to do it?

php.net/manual/en/function.substr-replace.php

hakre
– hakre

2011-12-26 19:24:56 +00:00
Commented Dec 26, 2011 at 19:24 — hakre
– hakre, Commented Dec 26, 2011 at 19:24

hakre · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-26 19:25:42Z

6

You can do this with the substr_replace^Docs function:

$var = 'ABCDEFGH:/MNRPQR/';

/* Delete 'MNRPQR' from $var. */
echo substr_replace($var, '', $start = 10, $length = -1) . "<br />\n";

answered Dec 26, 2011 at 19:25

hakre

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