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 =         


        

Answer 1

Use substr

$GetThis = substr($myStr, 5, 5);

Just use the same values for the same or different if you want multiple characters

$word = "master";
$length = strlen($word);
$random = rand(0,$length-1);
$GetThis = substr($word, $random, $random);

As noted in my comment (I overlooked as well) be sure to start your rand at 0 to include the beginning of your string since the m is at place 0. If we all overlooked that it wouldn't be random (as random?) now would it :)