Name

substr

Synopsis

$string = substr($string1, $regexp, $string2)

This finds the substrings of string1 that match the regular expression regexp. For each part of the regular expression enclosed in parenthesis that matches, the corresponding variable $1, $2, $3, etc. is set with the value of the match. The value of string2 is returned with variables (including $1, $2, $3, etc.) expanded.

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