Accessing a Specific Character in String in PHP
Q
How To Access a Specific Character in a String?
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A
Any character in a string can be accessed by a special string element expression:
- $string{index} - The index is the position of the character counted from left and starting from 0.
Here is a PHP script example:
<?php
$string = 'It\'s Friday!';
echo "The first character is $string{0}\n";
echo "The first character is {$string{0}}\n";
?>
This script will print:
The first character is It's Friday!{0}
The first character is I
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