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Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

ord

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

ord — Return ASCII value of character

Description

int ord ( string $string )

Returns the ASCII value of the first character of string .

This function complements chr().

Parameters

string

A character.

Return Values

Returns the ASCII value as an integer.

Examples

Example #1 ord() example

<?php
$str
= "\n";
if (
ord($str) == 10) {
   echo
"The first character of \$str is a line feed.\n";
}
?>

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