How to get first 5 characters from string [duplicate]

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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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$result = substr($myStr, 0, 5);

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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 < 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

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