Posted by Ken Robinson on 07/01/06 20:18

tony@tony.com wrote:
> 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 ?

That is the letter itself. What, precisely are you trying to do?
>
> To test this you can do this:
>
> echo ((int)$email[0]);
> and it returns 0.

In order to get the numerical value of a character, you need to use the
ord() fuction. <http://www.php.net/ord>

Ken

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