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Multibyte String Functions	Pspell

	Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

mb_substr

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)

mb_substr — Get part of string

Description

string mb_substr ( string $str , int $start [, int $length [, string $encoding ]] )

Performs a multi-byte safe substr() operation based on number of characters. Position is counted from the beginning of str . First character's position is 0. Second character position is 1, and so on.

Parameters

str: The string being checked.
start: The first position used in str .
length: The maximum length of the returned string.
encoding: The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.

Return Values

mb_substr() returns the portion of str specified by the start and length parameters.

mb_substr

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