In this PHP tutorial, you shall learn how to delete the first character from given string using substr() function, with example programs.
PHP – Delete first character in string
To delete first character from a string in PHP, we can find the substring from index=1 to end of the string. Call substr()
function and pass the given string, and an integer value of 1 as arguments.
Syntax
The syntax to get the string str
without its first character using substr()
function is
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substr($str, 1);
The function returns a string value.
Examples
1. Remove first character of a string
In this example, we will take a string str
and find an output string which is made from str
but without the first character.
PHP Program
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<?php
$str = 'apple';
$output = substr($str, 1);
echo $output;
?>
Output
Conclusion
In this PHP Tutorial, we learned how to delete the first character of a string, using substr()
function.