quick help with preg_replace?

[Coastal Web]

Hi guys, l have a few strings for example:

testing+123
testing+1+2+3

What l'd like to do is strip off the + signs and anything after them,
So in this example both strings would become 'testing'

Can anyone help me with a preg_replace that would solve this problem for me?

Regards,

[tempz]

PHP Code:

<?php
function myUrlEncode($string)
{
    return urlencode(str_replace( '+' , ' ' , $string ));
}
?>

[Fou-Lu]

That's the right idea, but not quite what they are looking for. Sounds like they want to remove everything to the right and including the first + sign.
There are several ways. I'd use one of the ones below given the simple criteria:

PHP Code:

$aParts = explode('+', $str);
print $aParts[0]; 


Would be the easiest.

PHP Code:

$sFirst = strtok($str, '+');
print $sFirst; 


Is another easy one and probably slightly better on memory.

There are several ways to accomplish this; it is one of the pros of being a string based language. I would not recommend using pcre when you are simply striping based off of another character.

[Coastal Web]

Thanks, l was specifically looking to do with preg_replace.
Here's what the winning solution is:

PHP Code:

    $str = preg_replace('/\+.*$/', '', $str); 


[Fou-Lu]

I'm not sure I understand why you want regex.
Pattern matching is substantially slower than tokenizing by orders of magnitude (albeit we're talking about thousandths of seconds, but still).
For such a simple match, its like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer.