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How to remove the n last characters out of a string ?

Mar 23rd, 2001 18:53
Ben Udall, Philippe Benaiche, http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

If you give a negative length to the substr function, it starts from 
the end of the string.
$str = "Hello world";
$num = 6;
echo substr($str, 0, -$num);
This outputs "Hello";