Smarty variable: trim first character

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I have a variable that will store a twitter account @twitteruser. I need to strip the @ from the variable so that I can create a button link going to their twitter account.

look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4325283/smarty-substr-a-variable — Paul Ishak, Jul 23 '16 at 13:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 01 '16 at 02:37

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If you know the character is the first char, use ltrim. I guess str_replace will search the entire string ;)

{$twitterUser|ltrim:'@'}

answered Aug 01 '16 at 02:37

Juanga Covas

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '16 at 19:14

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{$twitterUser|replace:'@':''|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'}

answered Jul 23 '16 at 19:14

Denver Prophit Jr.

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Smarty variable: trim first character

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