IntlChar::ord
(PHP 7, PHP 8)
IntlChar::ord — Return Unicode code point value of character
Description
$character
): ?intReturns the Unicode code point value of the given character.
This function complements IntlChar::chr().
Parameters
-
character
-
The int codepoint value (e.g.
0x2603
for U+2603 SNOWMAN), or the character encoded as a UTF-8 string (e.g."\u"
)
Return Values
Returns the Unicode code point value as an integer.
Examples
Example #1 Testing different code points
<?php
var_dump(IntlChar::ord("A"));
var_dump(IntlChar::ord(" "));
var_dump(IntlChar::ord("\u"));
?>
The above example will output:
int(65) int(32) int(9731)
See Also
- IntlChar::chr() - Return Unicode character by code point value
- mb_ord() - Get Unicode code point of character
- ord() - Convert the first byte of a string to a value between 0 and 255