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grapheme_extract

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grapheme_extract — Function to extract a sequence of default grapheme clusters from a text buffer, which must be encoded in UTF-8.

Description

Procedural style

string grapheme_extract ( string $haystack , int $size [, int $start ] )

Function to extract a sequence of default grapheme clusters from a text buffer, which must be encoded in UTF-8.

Parameters

haystack

String to search.

size

Maximum number of grapheme clusters to return.

start

Starting position in $haystack in bytes - if given, it must be zero or a positive value that is less than or equal to the length of $haystack in bytes. The default is zero. If $start does not point to the first byte of a UTF-8 character, the start position is moved to the next character boundary.

Return Values

A string starting at offset $start containing no more than $size grapheme clusters and ending on a default grapheme cluster boundary.

Examples

Example #1 grapheme_extract() example

< ?php

$char_a_ring_nfd = "a\xCC\x8A";  // 'LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE' (U+00E5) normalization form "D"
$char_o_diaeresis_nfd = "o\xCC\x88"; // 'LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS' (U+00F6) normalization form "D"

print urlencode(grapheme_extract( $char_a_ring_nfd . $char_o_diaeresis_nfd, 1, 2));

?>

The above example will output:

         
o%CC%88

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