Finding a character at a specific position of a string

Question

Since I am still new to PHP, I am looking for a way to find out how to get a specific character from a string.

Example:

$word = "master";
$length = strlen($word);
$random = rand(1,$length);

So let's say the $random value is 3, then I would like to find out what character the third one is, so in this case the character "s". If $random was 2 I would like to know that it's a "a".

I am sure this is really easy, but I tried some substr ideas for nearly an hour now and it always fails.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use substr() to grab a portion of a string starting from a point and going length. so example would be:

substr('abcde', 1, 1); //returns b

In your case:

$word = "master";
$length = strlen($word) - 1;
$random = rand(0,$length);
echo substr($word, $random, 1);//echos single char at random pos

See it in action here