How to Get First and Last Character from String in PHP?

 

In this blog, we will learn how to get the first and last characters from a string in PHP. This is going to be very easy and simple. 

We will be going to use substr() function of PHP to get the first and last characters. I will be explain with examples.

Let's start with examples,

PHP Get First and Last Character from String

Code:

<?php

    

    /* Declare string variable */

    $myString = "This is thecodingdev.com!";

         

    /* get First and Last Character of string */

    $last = substr($myString, 0, 1);

    $last = substr($myString, -1);

        

    /* Echo resulted string */

    echo $last;

    echo $last;

   

?>

Output:

T

!

I hope you understood this. If you have any doubt let me know in comments.