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Hi guys, <br />
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I'm looking for a method of removing a few characters from the end of a string in PHP. I saw a few, because it could be 1, 2 or 3 of them!<br />
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Basically, a string is being passed that could look like any of these. <br />
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dummy.exe.1<br />
dummy.exe.12<br />
dummy.exe.123<br />
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And I want to strip this so that I always end up with 'dummy.exe'.<br />
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I've thought about using rtrim, but I can't figure out the logic of removing everything from (and including) the last '.' onwards, regardless of how many characters there are. <br />
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Any help would be appreciated!
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Hi guys, 

I'm looking for a method of removing a few characters from the end of a string in PHP. I saw a few, because it could be 1, 2 or 3 of them!

Basically, a string is being passed that could look like any of these. 

dummy.exe.1
dummy.exe.12
dummy.exe.123

And I want to strip this so that I always end up with 'dummy.exe'.

I've thought about using rtrim, but I can't figure out the logic of removing everything from (and including) the last '.' onwards, regardless of how many characters there are. 

Any help would be appreciated!

I&#39;ve requested that this question be deleted for the following reason:

I figured it out. 

Instead of deleting your question, please post the solution you used.  If it&#39;s based on the responses of the Experts here, it is appropriate to award points.  If you&#39;ve come up with a completely novel way of trimming string data, we would certainly want to learn about it.  Thanks, ~Ray

Remove characters from the end of a string

Hi guys, 

I&#39;m looking for a method of removing a few characters from the end of a string in PHP. I saw a few, because it could be 1, 2 or 3 of them!

Basically, a string is being passed that could look like any of these. 

dummy.exe.1
dummy.exe.12
dummy.exe.123

And I want to strip this so that I always end up with &#39;dummy.exe&#39;.

I&#39;ve thought about using rtrim, but I can&#39;t figure out the logic of removing everything from (and including) the last &#39;.&#39; onwards, regardless of how many characters there are. 

Any help would be appreciated!

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