Remove first forward slash in a link?
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11-09-2019 - |
Question
I need to remove the first forward slash inside link formatted like this:
/directory/link.php
I need to have:
directory/link.php
I'm not literate in regular expressions (preg_replace?) and those slashes are killing me..
I need your help stackoverflow!
Thank you very much!
Solution
Just because nobody has mentioned it before:
$uri = "/directory/link.php";
$uri = ltrim($uri, '/');
The benefit of this one is:
compared to the
substr()
solution: it works also with paths that do not start with a slash. So using the same procedure multiple times on an uri is safe.compared to the
preg_replace()
solution: it's certainly much more faster. Actuating the regex-engine for such a trivial task is, in my opinion, overkill.
OTHER TIPS
preg_replace('/^\//', '', $link);
If it's always the first character, you won't need a regex:
$uri = "/directory/link.php";
$uri = substr($uri, 1);
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