how to get the last char of a string in PHP?

Question

I need to get the last character of a string. Say I have "testers" as input string and I want the result to be "s". how can I do that in PHP?

Answer 1

substr($string, -1) 

Answer 2

Substr

Answer 3

use substr

and strlen

Answer 4

substr("testers", -1); // returns "s"

Answer 5

there are many ways to do it in PHP
Most common one is to ask google for the substring php and land on the page full of examples: http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php including your case too.

Answer 6

Or by direct string access:

$string[strlen($string)-1];