How to get first 5 characters from string
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For single-byte strings (e.g. US-ASCII, ISO 8859 family, etc.) use substr
and for multi-byte strings(e.g. UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.) use mb_substr
:
// singlebyte strings
$result = substr($myStr, 0, 5);
// multibyte strings
$result = mb_substr($myStr, 0, 5);
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If you want to get only one character then use.
$str = 'abcdefghij';
echo $str{5};
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