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mb_ord

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(PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8)

Get Unicode code point of character

Description

mb_ord(string $string, string|null $encoding = null): int|false

Returns the Unicode code point value of the given character.

This function complements mb_chr().

Parameters

string: A string
encoding: Parameter

Return Values

The Unicode code point for the first character of string Falseforfailure.

Changelog

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Examples

A basic mb_ord() example

php

<?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:

output

int(65)
int(128024)
int(128)
int(8364)