Re: String to an Array

At 11:15 AM 12/8/02 +1100, Justin French wrote:

I *think* either: <? $str = "im the one trying to do this"; echo $str[0]; ?> OR <? $str = "im the one trying to do this"; echo $str{0}; ?> Works -- you'll have to experiment, but I believe the second way is correct, and will echo the first (0th) character in the string.

This depends on PHP version. In the bad old days you had to use $str[0]. Sometime since PHP4 came out they added the preferred $str{0} option, which is the only one that should be used in new code. Extracting characters from a string with [] is depreciated, and may stop working someday. Rick