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Daniel Clark

2004-04-27, 7:53 pm

$rest = substr("abcdef", 1, 3); // returns "bcd"

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.substr.php


> What PHP function returns just the first letter of a string?
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Cornelia Boenigk

2004-04-27, 8:56 pm

Hi Matt

You can teat a string like an Array
$first = $string[0];
$second = $string[1]
and so on.

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Conni
George Patterson

2004-04-27, 8:56 pm

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:05:32 -0700 (PDT)
"Daniel Clark" <dclark@nwlink.com> wrote:
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> $rest = substr("abcdef", 1, 3); // returns "bcd"
>
> http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.substr.php
>
>

Or to properly answer the question,

$letter=substr("abc", 0, 1); // returns the first character which is a.


Unless Matt wanted the first letter as opposed to the first character??



George Patterson
holmes072000@charter.net

2004-04-27, 10:35 pm

> From: matthew perry <mwperry@mail.uh.edu>

> What PHP function returns just the first letter of a string?


echo substr($str,0,1);

or

echo $str{0};

---John Holmes...
Lang Sharpe

2004-04-28, 11:52 pm

Cornelia Boenigk wrote:

> Hi Matt
>
> You can teat a string like an Array
> $first = $string[0];
> $second = $string[1]
> and so on.


Actually this method is deprecated. The current best way is to use curly
braces.

$first = $string{0};
$second = $string{1};


Lang
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