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<refentry xml:id="function.rtrim" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
<refnamediv>
<refname>rtrim</refname>
<refpurpose>Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type>string</type><methodname>rtrim</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>string</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>characters</parameter><initializer>" \n\r\t\v\x00"</initializer></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<simpara>
This function returns a string with whitespace (or other characters) stripped from the
end of <parameter>string</parameter>.
</simpara>
<simpara>
Without the second parameter,
<function>rtrim</function> will strip these characters:
</simpara>
&strings.stripped.characters;
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>string</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<simpara>
The input string.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>characters</parameter></term>
<listitem>
&strings.parameter.characters.optional;
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<simpara>
Returns the modified string.
</simpara>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title>Usage example of <function>rtrim</function></title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$text = "\t\tThese are a few words :) ... ";
$binary = "\x09Example string\x0A";
$hello = "Hello World";
var_dump($text, $binary, $hello);
print "\n";
$trimmed = rtrim($text);
var_dump($trimmed);
$trimmed = rtrim($text, " \t.");
var_dump($trimmed);
$trimmed = rtrim($hello, "Hdle");
var_dump($trimmed);
// trim the ASCII control characters at the end of $binary
// (from 0 to 31 inclusive)
$clean = rtrim($binary, "\x00..\x1F");
var_dump($clean);
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
&example.outputs;
<screen>
<![CDATA[
string(32) " These are a few words :) ... "
string(16) " Example string
"
string(11) "Hello World"
string(30) " These are a few words :) ..."
string(26) " These are a few words :)"
string(9) "Hello Wor"
string(15) " Example string"
]]>
</screen>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<simplelist>
<member><function>trim</function></member>
<member><function>ltrim</function></member>
</simplelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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