strip a number

[komquat]

I AM getting 111111 as a variable, I want the first 1 of that series.  I can not get it to work with substr(), is there anything else I can do?

 

Thank you

[MadTechie]

substr() not working ?

 

show some code please

 

can you show what you expect the output to be as i think you mean

111111

to

1

being the first number. but i am not sure!

[per1os]

<?php
$value = '111111';
$firstVal =  substr($value, 0);
?>

 

That does not work? If not this should work

 

<?php
$value = '111111';
$firstVal =  $value[0];
?>

[MadTechie]

correction

 

<?php
$value = '111111';
$firstVal =  $value{0};
?>

[tommyboy123x]

$string = str_split($string) --- php 5 only

echo $string[0];

 

 

explode('', $string);

echo $string[0];

 

those two should work... they do for me at least

[per1os]

$string = str_split($string) --- php 5 only

echo $string[0];

 

 

explode('', $string);

echo $string[0];

 

those two should work... they do for me at least

 

I think you are making it too complicated. Strings are already an array of characters, you do not need to do any exploding or splitting.

 

Simply calling $string[0] will pull the first character out of the string without any extra lines or coding involved.

[tommyboy123x]

probly, but it IS an alternative