# Stripping string

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stripping-string/327347>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [February 23, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stripping-string/327347 "2012-02-23T12:39:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![surf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@surf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/surf)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stripping-string/327347/1 "2012-02-23T12:39:49Z")

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Hi, I have a CMS generates a string which is stored in a db

like this

```php

a:6:{s:11:"video_thumb";
s:46:"sites/default/files/video_thumbs/12/video1.jpg";
s:21:"bypass_autoconversion";
i:0;s:11:"description";
s:0:"";
s:10:"dimensions";
s:7:"704x576";
s:17:"player_dimensions";
s:7:"704x576";
s:16:"video_thumb_file";
s:0:"";}

```

i want to strip them so that i can only have the img url eg

```php

sites/default/files/video_thumbs/12/video1.jpg

```

how can i achieve this?  
kind regards  
Surf