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LXX. String functions

These functions all manipulate strings in various ways. Some more specialized sections can be found in the regular expression and URL handling sections.

For information on how strings behave, especially with regard to usage of single quotes, double quotes, and escape sequences, see the Strings entry in the Types section of the manual.

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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 — Remove trailing whitespace
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 abouts characters used in a string
crc32 — Calculates the crc32 polynomial of a string
crypt — DES-encrypt a string
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