To read the specified character

[kill_bill_gates]

hi,

what is the PHP function to read the specified character -given its position in the string- in a string variable(just like Instr() function in VB)?

thanks in advance

[Bolerophone]

[code]

$twister = "peter picked a peck of pickeled peppers";
print(strpos($twister,"peck");
// this will print the position of peck in the string $twister
[code]

HTH

[kill_bill_gates]

well that's not the one I'm looking for,but that's my fault, I wasn't clear enough. I want the function to read the character at the given position. The character is not known.

e.g
$string="What a beautiful day"
echo functioniwant($string,2)
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The result should be "h".

[sciguyryan]

I think the function you want is substr()

Or, you can just do this:

String${Character_Number_Here}

Both will return the character

Cheers,

RyanJ

[kill_bill_gates]

thanks sciguyryan

[sciguyryan]

thanks sciguyryan

You are welcome

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Cheers,

RyanJ