I tend to use rtrim
, ltrim
and trim
to strip off spaces at the end, left or right. I also use them to strip off the characters at the end or the beginning of the string. Is it faster than a regular expression? Is there anything wrong with the following code?
$string = " hello: ";
$string = rtrim(trim($string), ":"); //hello
Would it make any difference if I were to use a regular expression in terms of performance?