How to slice a string in PHP?
<p>Ok, so I've got this string: </p>

<pre><code>MICROSOFT CORP CIK#: 0000789019 (see all company filings)
</code></pre>

<p>And I would like to cut off everything after the CORP bit. How would I go about doing this in PHP? I am used to Python so I am not sure how this is done.</p>

<p>To be clear, this is the output I want, sorry all:</p>

<pre><code>MICROSOFT CORP
</code></pre>

<p>I am trying:</p>

<pre><code>$companyname = substr($companyname, 0, strpos($companyname, " CIK"));
</code></pre>

<p>and I am getting nothing showing.</p>

<p>Here is my full code:</p>

<pre><code>    &lt;?php
    include 'simple_html_dom.php';
    $html = file_get_html('http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=&amp;match=&amp;CIK=MSFT&amp;filenum=&amp;State=&amp;Country=&amp;SIC=&amp;owner=exclude&amp;Find=Find+Companies&amp;action=getcompany');
    $companyname = $html-&gt;find('span[class=companyName]', 0);
    $companyname = substr($companyname, 0, strpos($companyname, " CIK#")+5);
    $bizadd = $html-&gt;find('div[class="mailer"]');
    echo $companyname;
    echo "&lt;br /&gt;";
    foreach ($bizadd as $value) {
        $addvals = $value-&gt;find('span[class="mailerAddress"]');
        echo "&lt;br /&gt;";
                foreach ($addvals as $value) {
                    echo $value;
                    echo "&lt;br /&gt;";
                }
    }
    ?&gt;
</code></pre>
