This works great. Thanks.
Jochem Maas wrote:
>
> delsvr wrote:
>> Just a simple question (with a simple answer, hopefully): how can I
>> access
>> character x of a utf-8 encoded string? i.e. how would I get this to work:
>>
>> for($x=0; $x < strlen($utf8); $x++)
>> echo "character {$x}:" . $utf8{$x};
>>
>> Keep in mind that I have strlen overloaded by mbstring, and this is
>> necessary for my purposes because I need to do work on each character.
>> Also,
>> by "character" I mean, for example: "我".
>
> substr() should do it.
> I don't think you can loop through a multibyte string in the way you want.
>
> $l = strlen($utf8);
> for($x=0; $x < $l; $x++) echo "char {$x}:".substr($utf8, $x, 1);
>
>
> check here to figure out exactly which functions you
> are currently overloading:
>
> http://php.net/mb_string
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> delsvr
>
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