* Thus wrote Janet Valade:
> Brian Dunning wrote:
> 
> >Thanks Chris, that works great, but it's not doing what I want. I'm just 
> >trying to get the position of the 3rd occurrence (for example) of 
> >'<br>'. So I'm looking for a function that will return the value 19, 
> >given the above example string.
> 
> From your first post, you just want to remove everything after a 
> certain occurrence. I don't understand why explode won't work for you. 
> As in,
> 
> <?
>   $string = 'one<br>two<br>three<br>four<br>five';
>   $nthPos = 4;
> 
>   $tmpArr = explode( '<br>', $string );
>   $newArr = array_slice($tmpArr,0,$nthPos-1);
>   $shortString = implode('<br>',$newArr);

and the short version:

$shortString = implode('<br>', explode('<br>', $string, $nth));



Curt
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