$name = "John"; echo $name{0}; you can also look into substr() ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ahmed Abdel-Aliem" <me2resh@xxxxxxxxx> To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: first letter > hi > if i have for example this variable > > $name = "John"; > > how can i echo the first letter only so the result on the browser will be "J" > > can anyone help ? > > > > -- > Ahmed Abdel-Aliem > www.ApexScript.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php