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PHP String Functions Guide

A string is a sequence of characters that can include letters, numbers, special characters, and arithmetic values. Strings can be created with single or double quotation marks. Functions like strlen(), str_word_count(), strrev(), strpos(), and str_replace() allow you to manipulate strings by getting the length, counting words, reversing text, searching for text, and replacing text within strings. Escape sequences with backslashes can be used to represent special characters within strings.

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PHP String Functions Guide

A string is a sequence of characters that can include letters, numbers, special characters, and arithmetic values. Strings can be created with single or double quotation marks. Functions like strlen(), str_word_count(), strrev(), strpos(), and str_replace() allow you to manipulate strings by getting the length, counting words, reversing text, searching for text, and replacing text within strings. Escape sequences with backslashes can be used to represent special characters within strings.

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String

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What is String
A string is a sequence of letters, numbers,
special characters and arithmetic values or
combination of all. The simplest way to create
a string is to enclose the string literal (i.e. string
characters) in single quotation marks ('), like
this: 1

$my_string = 'Hello World';

You can also use double quotation marks (").


However, single and double quotation marks
work in different ways.

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The escape-sequence
replacements are
• \n is replaced by the newline character
• \r is replaced by the carriage-return
2 character
• \t is replaced by the tab character
• \$ is replaced by the dollar sign itself
($)
• \" is replaced by a single double-quote
(")
• \\ is replaced by a single backslash (\)

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Get The Length of a String
The strlen() function is used to calculate
the number of characters inside a string. It
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also includes the blank spaces inside the
string.

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Count The Number of
Words in a String
The str_word_count() function
4 counts the number of words in a
string.

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Reverse a String
The strrev() function reverses a string.

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Search For a Specific
Text Within a String
The strpos() function searches for a
specific text within a string.
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If a match is found, the function returns
the character position of the first
match. If no match is found, it will
return FALSE.

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Replace Text Within a
String
The str_replace() function replaces
some characters with some other characters 7
in a string.

In the example replaces the text "world" with


"Dolly―.

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