How to remove the first character of string in PHP

Question

str   this is a applepie         How to use PHP  Remove the first character

User · Answer

Here is the code   str   substr  str  1     echo  str    Output   this is a applepie

User · Answer

Update  After further tests  I don t recommend using this any more  It caused a problem for me when using the updated string in a MySQL query  and changing to substr fixed the problem  I thought about deleting this answer  but comments suggest it is quicker somehow so someone might have a use for it  You may find trimming the updated string resolves string length issues     Sometimes you don t need a function    str 0          For example    str    AHello    str 0        echo  str      Hello    This method modifies the existing string rather than creating another

User · Answer

The accepted answer    str   ltrim  str          works but will remove multiple   when there are more than one at the start    str   substr  str  1     will remove any character from the start   However   if   str 0                str   substr  str  1     works perfectly

User · Answer

To remove every   from the beginning of a string  you can use ltrim    str      f o     str   ltrim  str        var dump  str       gt   f o

User · Answer

str   substr  str  1     See PHP manual example 3  echo substr  abcdef   1          bcdef   Note    unset  str 0      will not work as you cannot unset part of a string -  Fatal error  Cannot unset string offsets

User · Answer

Trims occurrences of every word in an array from the beginning and end of a string   whitespace and optionally extra single characters as per normal trim     lt  php function trim words  what   words   char list             if  is array  words   return false       char list       t n r 0 x0B      default trim chars      pattern       implode      array map  preg quote    words      b        str   trim preg replace      pattern    i       preg replace       pattern   i       trim  what   char list      char list       return  str        for example   trim list   array  AND    OR      what     OR x   1 AND b   2 AND    print r trim words  what   trim list         gt   x   1 AND b   2    what     ORDER BY x DESC  b ASC     print r trim words  what   trim list              gt   ORDER BY x DESC  b ASC    gt

User · Answer

you can use the sbstr   function  amount   1      where  amount the amount of string you want to delete starting  from index 0  str   substr  str   amount

User · Answer

To remove first Character of string in PHP    string    abcdef         new string   substr  string  1    echo  new string  Generates   bcdef

User · Answer

use mb substr function      mb substr   abc   1

User · Answer

The code works well for me    str   substr  str  - strlen  str -1      Maybe  contribute with answers too

User · Answer

The substr   function will probably help you here     str   substr  str  1     Strings are indexed starting from 0  and this functions second parameter takes the cutstart  So make that 1  and the first char is gone

User · Answer

Exec time for the 3 answers    Remove the first letter by replacing the case   str    hello    str 0            str 0    false      str 0    null     replaced by    but ok for echo   Exec time for 1 000 000 tests   0 39602184295654 sec    Remove the first letter with substr     str    hello    str   substr  str  1     Exec time for 1 000 000 tests   5 153294801712 sec    Remove the first letter with ltrim     str    hello    str  ltrim   str  h      Exec time for 1 000 000 tests   5 2393000125885 sec    Remove the first letter with preg replace     str    hello    str   preg replace              str     Exec time for 1 000 000 tests   6 8543920516968 sec

User · Answer

Use substr    str   substr  str  1      this is a applepie

[php] How to remove the first character of string in PHP?

Examples related to php

Examples related to string