I have looked everywhere but cannot seem to find how to cut out part of a string. I am wanting the first 5 characters of the string. The string has no spaces or unique identifiers so i can't really use explode.

Many Thanks
Mike

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Mike
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You can use substr

Example:
$string_i_want = substr($start_string,0,5);

What that says is I want characters 0 to 5 from start_string and store them in string_i_want.
You can, if you want, store them back in start_string but that would overwrite any values held previously.

I hope that helps.