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How To Access a Specific Character in a String using PHP?

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Answer:

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 $string{0} ";
echo "The first character is {$string{0}} ";
?>

This script will print:

The first character is It's Friday!{0}
The first character is I


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