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Strings in PHP

The document provides an overview of strings in PHP, explaining their definition, creation methods (single quotes, double quotes, heredoc, nowdoc), and common functions for manipulation such as strlen(), str_word_count(), and str_replace(). It also covers string comparison and cleaning functions like trim(), ltrim(), and rtrim(). Additionally, the document includes quiz questions to test knowledge on string functions.

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Strings in PHP

The document provides an overview of strings in PHP, explaining their definition, creation methods (single quotes, double quotes, heredoc, nowdoc), and common functions for manipulation such as strlen(), str_word_count(), and str_replace(). It also covers string comparison and cleaning functions like trim(), ltrim(), and rtrim(). Additionally, the document includes quiz questions to test knowledge on string functions.

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Strings

String in PHP
• A string is a sequence of letters, numbers, special characters and arithmetic
values or combination of all.
• used to store and manipulate text
• There are Four Way of creating String in PHP
◦ 1: Single quote
◦ 2: Double Quote
◦ 3: Heredoc
◦ 4: Nowdoc
Single Quoted
The simplest way to create a string is to enclose the string literal (i.e. string characters) in single
quotation marks ('), like this:
Single Quoted
This type of string does not process special characters inside quotes.
Double-quote strings
Unlike single-quote strings, double-quote strings in PHP are capable of processing special
characters.
Heredoc:
Heredoc is a special syntax in PHP that is used to define a multiline string. Heredoc strings are
enclosed in a special delimiter, which is a string that starts with <<< and ends with the same
string.
Heredoc syntax is similar to the double-quoted string, without the quotes
Heredoc:
Nowdoc
Nowdoc is similar to the heredoc, but in newdoc parsing is not done
Nowdoc syntax is similar to the single-quoted string
Newdoc
PHP Strings
A string is a sequence of characters, like "Hello world!".
we will look at some commonly used functions to manipulate strings.

strlen() - Return the Length of a String


The PHP strlen() function returns the length of a string.
str_word_count() - Count Words in a String
The PHP str_word_count() function counts the number of words in a string.
strrev() - Reverse a String

The PHP strrev() function reverses a string.


str_replace() - Replace Text Within a String
The PHP str_replace() function replaces some characters with some other characters in a string .
trim() function:
This function allows us to remove whitespaces or strings from both sides of a string.
strtolower() function:
This function converts a string into the lowercase string.
strtoupper() function:
This function converts a string into the uppercase string.
Comparing Strings
PHP strcmp() Function
Comparing Strings
The strcmp() function compares two strings.
The strcmp() function is binary-safe and case-sensitive.
Cleaning Strings
The trim() function removes whitespace and other predefined characters from both sides
of a string.

Related functions:
•ltrim() - Removes whitespace or other predefined characters from the left side of a string
•rtrim() - Removes whitespace or other predefined characters from the right side of a
string
Which of the following functions is used
to find the first occurrence of a
substring in a string?
• strlen()
• strpos()
• str_replace()
• str_split()
Which of the following functions is used
to find the first occurrence of a
substring in a string?
• strlen()
• strpos()
• str_replace()
• str_split()
Which of the following functions is used to
replace all occurrences of a substring in a string
with another substring?
• strlen()
• strpos()
• str_replace()
• str_split()
Which of the following functions is used to
replace all occurrences of a substring in a string
with another substring?
• strlen()
• strpos()
• str_replace()
• str_split()
Which of the following functions is used
to count the number of words in a string?
◦ strlen()
◦ strpos()
◦ str_replace()
◦ str_word_count()
Which of the following functions is used
to count the number of words in a string?
◦ strlen()
◦ strpos()
◦ str_replace()
◦ str_word_count()
Which of the following is not a
built-in PHP function for working
with strings?
◦ strlen()
◦ strpos()
◦ str_replace()
◦ str_split()
◦ strrev()
Which of the following is not a
built-in PHP function for working
with strings?
◦ strlen()
◦ strpos()
◦ str_replace()
◦ str_split()
◦ strrev()
What is the following is the output of the following PHP
code?

$str = "Hello, world!";


echo strlen($str);

13
What is the following is the output of the following PHP
code?

<?php
$str = "Hello, world!";
echo strpos($str, "world");
?>
7
What is the following is the output of the following PHP
code?

<?php
$str = "Hello, world!";
echo str_replace("world", "universe", $str);
?>
Hello universe
What is the following is the output of the following
PHP code?

<?php
$str = "Hello, world!";
echo $str[0];
?>

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