[SOLVED] question about finding the first letter of a word

[Renlok]

Is it possible to find the first letter of a word? Or to find what the first letter is?

If there is a way what is it?

i cant find out how anywhere.

 

thanks in advance for any help.

[kenrbnsn]

There are a number of ways. Here are two:

<?php
$word = 'this';
$fl1 = $word[0];
$fl2 = substr(0,1,$word);
?>

 

Ken

 

[obsidian]

Assuming that you are dealing with words you know always begin with a letter (not quotes or any other character), you could simply do one of the following:

<?php
$word = "Hello";
$letter = $word{0};
$letter = substr(0, 1, $word);
?>

 

Now, if you want to make sure that the first letter is pulled, even if your string contains another starting character, you'll have to account for that with some sort of pattern match:

<?php
$word = "'ello";
preg_match('|[^a-z]+?([a-z])|i', $word, $match);
$letter = $match[1];
?>

[Renlok]

well they always begin with a letter well cheers for that.