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PHP question: how do I get the first character from a string in PHP ?

http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

I can't see it on this page other than this which doesn't work.

$first = $var[0]; echo $first[0];

Thank you.

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Kenobi

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That should work assuming there's something in the $var variable. Maybe try $var = trim($var); first and then run the above to make sure it's got something printable.

Alternatively, try substr() with something like:

$var = trim($var);

$first = substr($var, 0);

echo $first;

(Sorry the the late reply - only just spotted this one).

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trevHCS

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