PHP Remove a single letter from a long string only once?

Question

I need to remove a single character from a string, eg in the text block below I would need to be able to remove ONE of the j's.

djriojnrwadoiaushd

leaving:

driojnrwadoiaushd

Answer 1

Try this:

$needle = 'j';
if (($pos = strpos($str, $needle) !== false) {
    $str = substr($str, 0, $pos) . substr($str, $pos+strlen($needle));
}

Answer 2

Just use substrings:

<?php

$str = 'djriojnrwadoiaushd';
$remove = 'j';

$index = strpos($str, $remove);
if ($index !== false)
    $str = substr($str, 0, $index) . substr($str, $index + 1);

echo $str;

?>

Answer 3

strpos() returns the position of the first needle in the haystack, ie. the first j in your string. It's then quite simple to just remove that letter.

Answer 4

Stand back - I know regular expressions;

$newString = preg_replace("/".preg_quote($stringToReplace)."/", '', $inputString, 1);

Answer 5

You can also use the fact that strings in PHP are arrays, and remove the element corresponding to the 'j':

$str[strpos($str, 'j')] = null;

Answer 6

You can also use str_relpace with the $count parameter: $str = 'djriojnrwadoiaushd'; echo str_replace('j', '', $str, 1);

Ups, sorry.. my bad.

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Here is a real way:

$str = 'djriojnrwadoiaushd';
$pos = strpos( $str, 'j' );
if( $pos !== FALSE )
{
    echo substr_replace( $str, '', $pos, 1 );
}