Regular expression matched first 3 character of string in PHP

Question

I am looking for a pattern regular expression that is matching of first 3 character of string.
For example , I have two number like this: 011569875 and 041568956
If I found first 3 character 011 ,then I will print 011569875

You don't need a regular expression to test that, why not simply use substr()? — Mark Baker
– Mark Baker, Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 18:05
echo substr($number,0,3) == '011' ? $number : ''; assuming your values are really strings — alanmm
– alanmm, Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 18:15

Tarunn · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-07 18:14:04Z

2

As suggested by @Mark, you can use substr as follows:

$string = substr($longstring,0,3);
if($string == '011'){
   echo $longstring;
}

Hope this helps. Cheers

answered Oct 7, 2015 at 18:14

Tarunn

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WebTigers Over a year ago

Not a regex solution though.

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