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

From PHP 7.1 you can do this (Accepted rfc for negative string offsets):

I'll let you guess the output.

Also, I added this to xenonite's performance code with these results:

substr() took 7.0334868431091seconds

array access took 2.3111131191254seconds

Direct string access (negative string offsets) took 1.7971360683441seconds