Remove characters from a variable

Question

I have the following in a variable, |MyString|

I want to strip the leading | and the ending | returning MyString

What is the quickest and non intensive way of doing this?

Answer 1

Easiest way is probably

$result = trim($input, '|');

http://docs.php.net/trim

e.g.

<?php
$in = '|MyString|';
$result = trim($in, '|');

echo $result;

prints MyString