How to remove the first character of string in PHP?

Posted By Bajarangi soft , Posted On 31-12-2020

In PHP to remove characters from beginning we can use ltrim but in that we have to define what we want to remove from a string i.e. removing characters are to be known.

Remove the very first character of a given string in PHP
Examples:

Input : software info tech
Output : software info tech

Input :, Hello infotech!
Output : Hello infotech!

Explanation:
In PHP to remove characters from beginning we can use ltrim but in that we have to define what we want to remove from a string i.e. removing characters are to be known.
Example

<?php
$str = "info tech solutions";

// Or we can write ltrim($str, $str[0]);
$str = ltrim($str, 'i');

echo $str;
?>