Remove a string from the beginning of a string in PHP

Posted 8 years ago By Ajay Gupta 47971

In this post, i will tell you how to remove a string from beginning of a string in PHP.

Sometime you have a prefix in a variable and you need to remove if given string has prefix then these examples will help you to find out if prefix exist in given string then it will remove it from string.

Example 1: Using substr

In this example, i have a number with country code and i want to get only number without country code then first i check if number has country code then remove it from number.

$conuntry_code = '91';
$number = '918888888888';
if (substr($number, 0, strlen($conuntry_code)) == $conuntry_code) {
    $number = substr($number, strlen($conuntry_code));
} 
echo $number;

$conuntry_code = '91';
$number = '918888888888';

if (substr($number, 0, strlen($conuntry_code)) == $conuntry_code) {
    $number = substr($number, strlen($conuntry_code));
} 
echo $number;

Example 1: Using ltrim

$conuntry_code = '91';
$number = '918888888888';
 
echo ltrim($number,$conuntry_code);

$conuntry_code = '91';
$number = '918888888888';
 
echo ltrim($number,$conuntry_code);

Using ltrim function, you can remove whitespace or other characters from the left side of a string.

Using substr function, you can cut a part of a string from a string.

Using strlen function, you can get length of a string.

Remove a string from the beginning of a string in PHP

Remove a string from the beginning of a string in PHP

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