PHP: mb_ord - Manual (original) (raw)

(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)

mb_ord — Get Unicode code point of character

Description

This function complements mb_chr().

Parameters

string

A string

encoding

The encodingparameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or [null](reserved.constants.php#constant.null), the internal character encoding value will be used.

Return Values

The Unicode code point for the first character of string or [false](reserved.constants.php#constant.false) on failure.

Changelog

Examples

Example #1 A basic mb_ord() example

<?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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