XCV. String functions

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addcslashes -- Quote string with slashes in a C style
addslashes -- Quote string with slashes
bin2hex --  Convert binary data into hexadecimal representation
chop -- Alias of rtrim()
chr -- Return a specific character
chunk_split -- Split a string into smaller chunks
convert_cyr_string --  Convert from one Cyrillic character set to another
count_chars --  Return information about characters used in a string
crc32 -- Calculates the crc32 polynomial of a string
crypt -- One-way string encryption (hashing)
echo -- Output one or more strings
explode -- Split a string by string
get_html_translation_table --  Returns the translation table used by htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities()
get_meta_tags --  Extracts all meta tag content attributes from a file and returns an array
hebrev --  Convert logical Hebrew text to visual text
hebrevc --  Convert logical Hebrew text to visual text with newline conversion
htmlentities --  Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities
htmlspecialchars --  Convert special characters to HTML entities
implode -- Join array elements with a string
join -- Join array elements with a string
levenshtein --  Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings
localeconv -- Get numeric formatting information
ltrim --  Strip whitespace from the beginning of a string
md5 -- Calculate the md5 hash of a string
md5_file -- Calculates the md5 hash of a given filename
metaphone -- Calculate the metaphone key of a string
nl2br --  Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string
ord -- Return ASCII value of character
parse_str -- Parses the string into variables
print -- Output a string
printf -- Output a formatted string
quoted_printable_decode --  Convert a quoted-printable string to an 8 bit string
quotemeta -- Quote meta characters
str_rot13 -- Perform the rot13 transform on a string
rtrim --  Strip whitespace from the end of a string
sscanf --  Parses input from a string according to a format
setlocale -- Set locale information
similar_text --  Calculate the similarity between two strings
soundex -- Calculate the soundex key of a string
sprintf -- Return a formatted string
strncasecmp --  Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters
strcasecmp --  Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
strchr --  Find the first occurrence of a character
strcmp -- Binary safe string comparison
strcoll -- Locale based string comparison
strcspn --  Find length of initial segment not matching mask
strip_tags -- Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string
stripcslashes --  Un-quote string quoted with addcslashes()
stripslashes --  Un-quote string quoted with addslashes()
stristr --  Case-insensitive strstr()
strlen -- Get string length
strnatcmp --  String comparisons using a "natural order" algorithm
strnatcasecmp --  Case insensitive string comparisons using a "natural order" algorithm
strncmp --  Binary safe string comparison of the first n characters
str_pad --  Pad a string to a certain length with another string
strpos --  Find position of first occurrence of a string
strrchr --  Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
str_repeat -- Repeat a string
strrev -- Reverse a string
strrpos --  Find position of last occurrence of a char in a string
strspn --  Find length of initial segment matching mask
strstr -- Find first occurrence of a string
strtok -- Tokenize string
strtolower -- Make a string lowercase
strtoupper -- Make a string uppercase
str_replace --  Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string
strtr -- Translate certain characters
substr -- Return part of a string
substr_count -- Count the number of substring occurrences
substr_replace -- Replace text within a portion of a string
trim --  Strip whitespace from the beginning and end of a string
ucfirst -- Make a string's first character uppercase
ucwords --  Uppercase the first character of each word in a string
vprintf -- Output a formatted string
vsprintf -- Return a formatted string
wordwrap --  Wraps a string to a given number of characters using a string break character.
nl_langinfo --  Query language and locale information