String Functions
Published Apr 17, 2022
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PHP has several built-in functions for text processing and the manipulation of strings.
A list of PHP string and text processing functions can be found in the table below:
String Functions
- explode()
- Splits a given string by a delimiter and returns an array of the substrings produced.
- hex2bin()
- Converts a string of hexadecimal values to its binary representation.
- implode()
- Joins the elements of an array to form a new string
- ltrim()
- Trims whitespace or specific characters from the left side of a given string.
- rtrim()
- Removes whitespace or other predefined characters from the right side of a string.
- sprintf()
- Returns a string with a specified formatting.
- str_repeat()
- Returns a string with occurrences of a specified substring repeated a specified number of times.
- str_replace()
- Returns a string with occurrences of a specified substring replaced by another string.
- str_shuffle()
- Randomly shuffles a string.
- strlen()
- Returns the number of bytes in a given string.
- substr()
- Returns a portion of a specified string.
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