triming a string

remove specfic word when it appears as first word in string

[santapaws]

Trying to work out how to remove a specfic word (say foo for example) when it is the first word in a string. Any pointers? tx.

[penders]

Assuming the word is always followed by a white-space (\s) character then...

$str = preg_replace('/^foo\s/','',$str);

^ is a position marker indicating the start of the string.

[santapaws]

thanks works great, i wonder how i would make this case insensitive? :)

[penders]

$str = preg_replace('/^foo\s/i','',$str);

case isensitive (pattern modifier)

[santapaws]

excllent. Thanks.