the trim() function isnt working for me

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help. manual says:

$hello  = "Hello World"
$trimmed = trim($hello, "Hdle");
var_dump($trimmed);

when used turned out to be:

string(5) "o Wor"

i just want to remove all the x's from my string. its not working for me.
$string = "faxtxxx";
does not come out to be "fat"
it comes out to be "faxtxxx" when i do
$string = trim($string, "x");

help

[blocblue]

You could always try str_replace.
E.g.

$str_word = 'fooxxbarrxx';
echo str_replace('x', '', $str_word);
// foobar

R

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thanks man u helped a lot. im pretty sure this is what ivve been looking for.. thanks again