ord

(PHP 3, PHP 4 >= 4.0b1)

ord -- Return ASCII value of character

Description

int ord (string string)

Returns the ASCII value of the first character of string. This function complements chr().

Example 1. ord() example


if (ord ($str) == 10) {
    echo "The first character of \$str is a line feed.\n";
}
      

See also chr().