Finding a character at a specific position of a string

Question

Since I am still new to PHP, I am looking for a way to find out how to get a specific character from a string.

Example:

$word = \"master\";
$length =         


        

Answer 1

Try this simply:

$word = "master";
$length = strlen($word);
$random = rand(0,$length-1);

if($word[$random] == 's'){
 echo $word[$random]; 
}

Here I used 0 because $word[0] is m so that we need to subtract one from strlen($word) for getting last character r

Answer 2

Use substr

$GetThis = substr($myStr, 5, 5);

Just use the same values for the same or different if you want multiple characters

$word = "master";
$length = strlen($word);
$random = rand(0,$length-1);
$GetThis = substr($word, $random, $random);

As noted in my comment (I overlooked as well) be sure to start your rand at 0 to include the beginning of your string since the m is at place 0. If we all overlooked that it wouldn't be random (as random?) now would it :)

Answer 3

You can simply use $myStr{$random} to obtain the nth character of the string.

Answer 4

You can use substr() to grab a portion of a string starting from a point and going length. so example would be:

substr('abcde', 1, 1); //returns b

In your case:

$word = "master";
$length = strlen($word) - 1;
$random = rand(0,$length);
echo substr($word, $random, 1);//echos single char at random pos

See it in action here

Answer 5

You can use your string the same like 0-based index array:

$some_string = "apple";
echo $some_string[2];

It'll print 'p'.

or, in your case:

$word = "master";
$length = strlen($word);
$random = rand(0,$length-1);

echo $word[$random];