Re: [PHP-DB] First letter

2004-04-28 Thread Lang Sharpe 
Cornelia Boenigk wrote:

 Hi Matt
 
 You can teat a string like an Array
 $first = $string[0];
 $second = $string[1]
 and so on.

Actually this method is deprecated. The current best way is to use curly
braces.

$first = $string{0};
$second = $string{1};


Lang

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Re: [PHP-DB] First letter

2004-04-27 Thread Daniel Clark 
$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

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Re: [PHP-DB] First letter

2004-04-27 Thread Cornelia Boenigk 
Hi Matt

You can teat a string like an Array
$first = $string[0];
$second = $string[1]
and so on.

Regards
Conni

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Re: [PHP-DB] First letter

2004-04-27 Thread holmes072000 
 From: matthew perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 What PHP function returns just the first letter of a string?

echo substr($str,0,1);

or

echo $str{0};

---John Holmes...

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