Overview

Strings are one of the most important parts of the PHP language. Most textual data is represented as strings, and a good portion of many scripts are dedicated to processing, cleaning, escaping, parsing, and transforming text.

Not surprisingly, PHP has a wide range of functions for dealing with string data.

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