chop() function in php

PHP chop() function is used to remove whitespaces, some predefined characters, or user-defined characters or words from the right end of a PHP string. It is an inbuilt function of PHP. The return type of this function is a string.

The predefined characters are:

• Null: ["\0"]
• Tab: ["\t"]
• New line; ["\n"]
• Vertical tab: ["\x0B"]
• Carriage return: ["\r"]
• Simple white spaces: [" "]

Syntax:

here,

• $string is a PHP string.
• $character_list is a list of words or characters which we want to remove from given string.

Example 1:

<?php
$string="Ram's son goes to his school in the morning";
$new_string=chop($string,"morning");
echo "Old string is : $string <br>";
echo "New String is : $new_string";
?>

Output:

Example 2:

<?php
$string="Ram's son goes to his school in the morning.\n";
$new_string=chop($string); // it will remove \n from the end of $string
echo "Old string is : $string";
echo "New String is :$new_string";
?>

Output: