IntlChar::ord

Return Unicode code point value of character

Description

public static intnull IntlChar::ord(intstring $character)

Returns the Unicode code point value of the given character.

This function complements IntlChar::chr.

Parameters

character

The int codepoint value (e.g. 0x2603 for U+2603 SNOWMAN), or the character encoded as a UTF-8 string (e.g. "\u{2603}")

Return Values

Returns the Unicode code point value as an integer.

Examples

Example #1 Testing different code points

<?php
var_dump(IntlChar::ord("A"));
var_dump(IntlChar::ord(" "));
var_dump(IntlChar::ord("\u{2603}"));
?>

The above example will output:

int(65)
int(32)
int(9731)

See Also

  • IntlChar::chr
  • mb_ord
  • ord