On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:05:32 -0700 (PDT)
"Daniel Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> $rest = substr("abcdef", 1, 3); // returns "bcd"
> 
> http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.substr.php
> 
> 
> > What PHP function returns just the first letter of a string?
> > - Matt
> >

Or to properly answer the question,

$letter=substr("abc", 0, 1); // returns the first character which is a.


Unless Matt wanted the first letter as opposed to the first character??



George Patterson

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