Posted by tony on 07/01/06 19:48

Does PHP have a byte or character type ?

If I do

$email = "tony@tony.com";
echo $email[0];

I can get the letter "t"

However according to the documentation (and my tests) this is not being
extracted as a character but a string.

How can I extract just the character itself ?

To test this you can do this:

echo ((int)$email[0]);
and it returns 0.


is there a character (byte) type at all ?

tony

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