PHP: best method to trim a substring from a string

Question

Want to process a set of strings, and trim some ending "myEnding" from the end of each string if it exists.

What is the simplest way to do it? I know that everything is possible with regexp, but thus seems to be a simple task, and I wonder whether a simpler tool for this exists.

Thanks

Gidi

Answer 1

ima go with preg_replace on this one.

$output = preg_replace('/myEnding$/s', '', $input);

Answer 2

Try this:

$s = "foobarmyEnding";
$toRemove = "myEnding";

$len = strlen($toRemove);
if (strcmp(substr($s, -$len, $len), $toRemove) === 0)
{
    $s = substr($s, 0, -$len);
}

ideone