mb_substr()

mb_substr() — Get part of string.

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

Inputs: string: The string to extract the substring from. start: If start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the start’th position in string, counting from zero. For instance, in the string ‘abcdef’, the character at position 0 is ‘a’, the character at position 2 is ‘c’, and so forth. If start is negative, the returned string will start at the start’th character from the end of string.

Returns: mb_substr returns the portion of string specified by the start and length parameters.