PHP Regular Expression Exercises: Remove the last word from a string

PHP regular expression: Exercise-2 with Solution

Write a PHP script that removes the last word from a string.

Sample string : 'The quick brown fox'

Pictorial Presentation:

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
$str1 = 'The quick brown fox';
echo preg_replace('/\W\w+\s*(\W*)$/', '$1', $str1)."\n";
?>

Sample Output:

The quick brown

Flowchart :

PHP Code Editor:

Have another way to solve this solution? Contribute your code (and comments) through Disqus.

Previous: Write a PHP script that checks if a string contains another string.
Next: Write a PHP script that removes the whitespaces from a string.