mb_ord
(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)
mb_ord — Get Unicode code point of character
Description
mb_ord(string
$string, ?string $encoding = null): int|falseReturns the Unicode code point value of the given character.
This function complements mb_chr().
Parameters
-
string -
A string
-
encoding -
The
encodingparameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted ornull, the internal character encoding value will be used.
Return Values
The Unicode code point for the first character of string or false on failure.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.0.0 |
encoding is nullable now.
|
Examples
<?php
var_dump(mb_ord("A", "UTF-8"));
var_dump(mb_ord("🐘", "UTF-8"));
var_dump(mb_ord("\x80", "ISO-8859-1"));
var_dump(mb_ord("\x80", "Windows-1252"));
?>
The above example will output:
int(65)
int(128024)
int(128)
int(8364)
See Also
- mb_internal_encoding() - Set/Get internal character encoding
- mb_chr() - Return character by Unicode code point value
- IntlChar::ord() - Return Unicode code point value of character
- ord() - Convert the first byte of a string to a value between 0 and 255
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