Returns the portion of string specified by the
start and length parameters.
인수
string
The input string. Must be one character or longer.
start
If start is non-negative, the returned string
will start at the start'th position in
string, counting from zero. For instance,
in the string 'abcdef', the character at
position 0 is 'a', the
character at position 2 is
'c', and so forth.
If start is negative, the returned string
will start at the start'th character
from the end of string.
If string is less than
start characters long, FALSE will be returned.
If length is given and is positive, the string
returned will contain at most length characters
beginning from start (depending on the length of
string).
If length is given and is negative, then that many
characters will be omitted from the end of string
(after the start position has been calculated when a
start is negative). If
start denotes the position of this truncation or
beyond, FALSE will be returned.
If length is given and is 0,
FALSE or NULL, an empty string will be returned.
If length is omitted, the substring starting from
start until the end of the string will be
returned.
// Accessing single characters in a string // can also be achieved using "square brackets" $string = 'abcdef'; echo $string[0]; // a echo $string[3]; // d echo $string[strlen($string)-1]; // f
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Example #4 substr() casting behaviour
<?php class apple { public function __toString() { return "green"; } }