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
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• \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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