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rtrim

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

rtrim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string

Description

string rtrim ( string $str [, string $charlist ] )

This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the end of str .

Without the second parameter, rtrim() will strip these characters:

Parameters

str

The input string.

charlist

You can also specify the characters you want to strip, by means of the charlist parameter. Simply list all characters that you want to be stripped. With .. you can specify a range of characters.

Return Values

Returns the modified string.

ChangeLog

Version Description
4.1.0 The charlist parameter was added.

Examples

Example#1 Usage example of rtrim()

<?php

$text 
"\t\tThese are a few words :) ...  ";
$binary "\x09Example string\x0A";
$hello  "Hello World";
var_dump($text$binary$hello);

print 
"\n";

$trimmed rtrim($text);
var_dump($trimmed);

$trimmed rtrim($text" \t.");
var_dump($trimmed);

$trimmed rtrim($hello"Hdle");
var_dump($trimmed);

// trim the ASCII control characters at the end of $binary
// (from 0 to 31 inclusive)
$clean rtrim($binary"\x00..\x1F");
var_dump($clean);

?>

The above example will output:

string(32) " These are a few words :) ... " string(16) " Example string " string(11) "Hello World" string(30) " These are a few words :) ..." string(26) " These are a few words :)" string(9) "Hello Wor" string(15) " Example string"

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