How to select all characters to the right of a specific character in a string - PHP

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I spent a long time trying to figure this out! How do I select all the characters to the right of a specific character in a string when I don't know how many characters there will be?

the function [strstr](http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php) does just that — Frédéric Clausset, May 02 '13 at 22:01

nice ass · Answer 1 · 2013-05-02T22:01:50.050

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// find the position of the first occurrence of the char you're looking for
$pos = strpos($string, $char);

// cut the string from that point
$result = substr($string, $pos + 1);

edited May 02 '13 at 22:01

answered May 02 '13 at 21:53

nice ass

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Probably want to substr on `$pos+1` to get only right of that character. – Jonathan Kuhn May 02 '13 at 22:00
And now for multibyte characters! UTF-8 for the win! – Sven May 02 '13 at 22:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '13 at 21:53

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You can also do:

$str = 'some_long_string';
echo explode( '_', $str, 2)[1]; // long_string

answered May 02 '13 at 21:53

nickb

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 02 '13 at 21:55

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I'm not sure this would fit your needs, but :

$string = explode(',','I dont know how to, get this part of the text');

Wouldn't $string[1] always be the right side of the delimiter? Unless you have more than one of the same in the string... sorry if it's not what you're looking for.

answered May 02 '13 at 21:55

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Yes! You are correct! This is exactly what I was looking for. Strange I couldn't find it with my searches. :) – carter May 03 '13 at 02:01
This fails when you have more than one of the delimiter in the string. You need to specify the limit parameter [as I did in my answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/16348360/862594). – nickb May 03 '13 at 02:43

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 02 '13 at 21:54

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Use strpos to find the position of the specific character, and then use substr to grab all the characters after it.

answered May 02 '13 at 21:54

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered May 02 '13 at 22:12

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Just use strstr

$data = 'Some#Ramdom#String';
$find = "#" ;
$string = substr(strstr($data,$find),strlen($find));
echo $string;

Output

Ramdom#String

answered May 02 '13 at 22:12

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered May 02 '13 at 22:41

You have to use substr with a negative starting integer

$startingCharacter = 'i';
$searchString = 'my test string';
$positionFromEnd = strlen($searchString)
    - strpos($searchString, $startingCharacter);
$result = substr($searchString, ($positionFromEnd)*-1);

or in a function:

function strRightFromChar($char, $string) {
    $positionFromEnd = strlen($string) - strpos($string, $char);
    $result = substr($string, ($positionFromEnd)*-1);
    return $result;
}
echo strRightFromChar('te', 'my test string');

(Note that you can search for a group of characters as well)

score -1 · Answer 7 · edited May 02 '13 at 21:51

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Assuming I want to select all characters to the right of the first underscore in my string:

$stringLength = strlen($string_I_want_to_strip);
$limiterPos = strpos($string_I_want_to_strip, "_");
$reversePos = $limiterPos - $stringLength + 1;
$charsToTheRight = substr($string_I_want_to_strip, $reversePos, $limiterPos);

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answered May 02 '13 at 21:49

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I put this into production already because it does exactly what I want... It selects all characters to the right of a delimiter. The better method is "explode()" however. – carter May 03 '13 at 02:02

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