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DOMCharacterData
Remove a range of characters from the character data

DOMCharacterData::deleteData

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMCharacterData::deleteData — Remove a range of characters from the character data

Description

public DOMCharacterData::deleteData(int $offset, int $count): bool

Deletes count characters starting from position offset.

Parameters

offset: The offset from which to start removing.
count: The number of characters to delete. If the sum of offset and count exceeds the length, then all characters to the end of the data are deleted.

Return Values

Returns true on success or false on failure.

Errors/Exceptions

May throw a DOMException with the following error codes:

DOM_INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if offset is negative or greater than the number of UTF-8 codepoints in data, or if count is negative.

See Also

DOMCharacterData::appendData() - Append the string to the end of the character data of the node
DOMCharacterData::insertData() - Insert a string at the specified UTF-8 codepoint offset
DOMCharacterData::replaceData() - Replace a substring within the character data
DOMCharacterData::substringData() - Extracts a range of data from the character data