Answer: How do I get the Nth character of a string?


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Answer: How do I get the Nth character of a string?

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Q&A > strings > How do I get the Nth Character of a String? contributed by vroom

Use substr with a length of one. The character numbering is zero based so the first character in the string is the 0th element.

$str = "123456789";
$first = substr($str, 0, 1); #returns the first character
$third = substr($str, 2, 1); #returns the third character
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