How to get first 5 characters from string

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How to get first 5 characters from string using php   myStr    HelloWordl     result should be like this   result    Hello

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You can use the substr function like this   echo substr  myStr  0  5     The second argument to substr is from what position what you want to start and third arguments is for how many characters you want to return

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An alternative way to get only one character   str    abcdefghij   echo  str 5    I would particularly not use this  but for the purpose of education  We can use that to answer the question   newString       for   i   0   i  lt  5   i           newString     str  i     echo  newString   For anyone using that  Bear in mind curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string offsets is deprecated from PHP 7 4 More information  https   wiki php net rfc deprecate curly braces array access

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Use substr      result   substr  myStr  0  5

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For single-byte strings  e g  US-ASCII  ISO 8859 family  etc   use substr and for multi-byte strings  e g  UTF-8  UTF-16  etc   use mb substr      singlebyte strings  result   substr  myStr  0  5      multibyte strings  result   mb substr  myStr  0  5

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You can get your result by simply use substr     Syntax substr string start length   Example    lt  php  myStr    HelloWordl   echo substr  myStr 0 5     gt    Output     Hello

[php] How to get first 5 characters from string

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