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    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|false

    Returns the Unicode code point value of the given character.

    This function complements mb_chr().

    Parameters

    string

    A string

    encoding

    The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null, 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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