php string function to get substring before the last occurrence of a character

Question

$string = "Hello World Again".
echo strrchr($string , ' '); // Gets ' Again'

Now I want to get "Hello World" from the $string [The substring before the last occurrence of a space ' ' ]. How do I get it??

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5939412/php-string-function-to-get-substring-before-the-last-occurrence-of-a-character

Answer 1

This is kind of a cheap way to do it, but you could split, pop, and then join to get it done:

$string = 'Hello World Again';
$string = explode(' ', $string);
array_pop($string);
$string = implode(' ', $string);