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PHP rtrim to Remove the Last Space and What Follows

In PHP how to use trim() or rtrim() to remove the last space and the characters after?

Expample:

Any Address 23B

to become

Any Address

AND

Another Address 6

to become

Another Address

Solution

  • You cant. Trim is for spaces and tabs etc, or specified characters. What you want is more specific logic.

    If you want it from the last space:

    $lastSpace = strrpos($string, ' ');
$street = substr($string, 0, $lastSpace);
$number = substr($string, $lastSpace+1);

    You can also implode on space, use array_pop to get the last value and then implode, but array functions on string manipulation are costly compared to a substr.
    You can also use a regex to get the last values, but while it's better than array manipulation for string, you should use it as a plan B as a regex isn't the most lightweight option either.