(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)
mb_ord — Get Unicode code point of character
Returns the Unicode code point value of the given character.
This function complements mb_chr().
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.
The Unicode code point for the first character of string
or false
on failure.
Version | Description |
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8.0.0 |
encoding is nullable now.
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Example #1 A basic mb_ord() example
<?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: