<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mb_strcut</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Multibyte String Functions" HREF="ref.mbstring.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mb_split" HREF="function.mb-split.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mb_strimwidth" HREF="function.mb-strimwidth.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mb-split.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mb-strimwidth.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mb-strcut" ></A >mb_strcut</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN53117" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)</P >mb_strcut -- Get part of string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN53120" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >mb_strcut</B > ( string str, int start [, int length [, string encoding]])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mb_strcut()</B > returns the portion of <VAR CLASS="parameter" >str</VAR > specified by the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >start</VAR > and <VAR CLASS="parameter" >length</VAR > parameters. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mb_strcut()</B > performs equivalent operation as <A HREF="function.mb-substr.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mb_substr()</B ></A > with different method. If <VAR CLASS="parameter" >start</VAR > position is multi-byte character's second byte or larger, it starts from first byte of multi-byte character. </P ><P > It subtracts string from <VAR CLASS="parameter" >str</VAR > that is shorter than <VAR CLASS="parameter" >length</VAR > AND character that is not part of multi-byte string or not being middle of shift sequence. </P ><P > <VAR CLASS="parameter" >encoding</VAR > is character encoding. If it is not set, internal character encoding is used. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.mb-substr.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mb_substr()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mb-internal-encoding.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mb_internal_encoding()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mb-split.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mb-strimwidth.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mb_split</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mbstring.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mb_strimwidth</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >