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IntlChar::ord

(PHP 7)

IntlChar::ord — Return Unicode code point value of character

Description

public static int IntlChar::ord ( mixed $character )

Returns the Unicode code point value of the given character.

This function compliments IntlChar::chr().

Parameters

character: A Unicode character.

Return Values

Returns the Unicode code point value as an integer.

Examples

Example #1 Testing different code points


<?php
var_dump(IntlChar::ord("A"));
var_dump(IntlChar::ord(" "));
var_dump(IntlChar::ord("\u{2603}"));
?>

The above example will output:

int(65)
int(32)
int(9731)

See Also

IntlChar::isalnum() - Check if code point is an alphanumeric character
IntlChar::isdigit() - Check if code point is a digit character
IntlChar::chr() - Return Unicode character by code point value
ord() - Return ASCII value of character

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