mb_substr

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)

mb_substr获取部分字符串

说明

mb_substr ( string $str , int $start [, int $length = NULL [, string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding() ]] ) : string

根据字符数执行一个多字节安全的 substr() 操作。 位置是从 str 的开始位置进行计数。 第一个字符的位置是 0。第二个字符的位置是 1,以此类推。

参数

str

从该 string 中提取子字符串。

start

如果 start 不是负数,返回的字符串会从 strstart 的位置开始,从 0 开始计数。举个例子,字符串 'abcdef',位置 0 的字符是 'a',位置 2 的字符是 'c',以此类推。

如果 start 是负数,返回的字符串是从 str 末尾处第 start 个字符开始的。

length

str 中要使用的最大字符数。如果省略了此参数或者传入了 NULL,则会提取到字符串的尾部。

encoding

encoding 参数为字符编码。如果省略,则使用内部字符编码。

返回值

mb_substr() 函数根据 startlength 参数返回 str 中指定的部分。

更新日志

版本 说明
5.4.8 length 传入 NULL,则从 start 提取到字符串的结尾处。 在之前的版本里, NULL 会被当作 0 来处理。

参见

User Contributed Notes

qdinar at gmail dot com 27-Jun-2016 04:06
you can make mb_substr working faster with long strings with usage of ucs-2 encoding.

<?php

header
('Content-Type: text/html; CHARSET=gb2312');
echo
'<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; CHARSET=gb2312" >';

function
test($string, $encoding='utf8'){
   
$t1=microtime(true);
   
$textlen=mb_strlen($string);
   
$substr_len=3;
    for(
$i=0;$i<$textlen-$substr_len+1;$i++){
       
$substr=mb_substr($string,$i,$substr_len);
    }
    echo
'mb_substr, '.$encoding.': '.(microtime(true)-$t1);
    echo
' . check: ';
    if(
$encoding=='ucs2'){
       
$substr=mb_convert_encoding($substr,'utf-8','ucs2');
    }
   
var_dump( $substr );
    echo
' . <br>';
    echo
'<br>';
}

$corpus_short=str_repeat('тест Тест ',1000);
// it works likewise slowly with "test Test" with utf8
mb_internal_encoding('utf-8');
test($corpus_short);

$corpus_short_ucs2=mb_convert_encoding($corpus_short,'ucs2','utf-8');
mb_internal_encoding('ucs2');
test($corpus_short_ucs2,'ucs2');

?>

output:

mb_substr, utf8: 0.26480984687805 . check: string(5) "ст " .

mb_substr, ucs2: 0.0048871040344238 . check: string(5) "ст " .
qbolec at gmail dot com 05-Aug-2015 03:10
As you often need to iterate over UTF-8 characters inside a string, you might be tempted to use mb_substr($text,$i,1).
The problem with this is that there is no "magic" way to find $i-th character inside UTF-8 string, other than reading it byte by byte from the begining. Thus a loop which calls mb_substr($text,$i,1) N times for all possible N values of $i, will take much longer than expected. The larger the $i gets, the longer is the search for $i-th letter. As characters are between 1 to 6 bytes long, one can convince oneself, that the execution time of such loop is actually Theta(N^2), which can be really slow even for moderately long texts.
One way to work around it is to first split your text into an array of letters using some smart preprocessing, and only then iterate over the array.
Here is the idea:
<?php
class Strings
{
  public static function
len($a){
    return
mb_strlen($a,'UTF-8');
  }
  public static function
charAt($a,$i){
    return
self::substr($a,$i,1);
  }
  public static function
substr($a,$x,$y=null){
    if(
$y===NULL){
     
$y=self::len($a);
    }
    return
mb_substr($a,$x,$y,'UTF-8');
  }
  public static function
letters($a){
   
$len = self::len($a);
    if(
$len==0){
      return array();
    }else if(
$len == 1){
      return array(
$a);
    }else{
      return
Arrays::concat(
       
self::letters(self::substr($a,0,$len>>1)),
       
self::letters(self::substr($a,$len>>1))
      );
    }
  }
?>
As you can see, the Strings::letters($text) split the text recursively into two parts. Each level of the recursion requires time linear in the length of the string, and there is logarithmic number of levels, so the total runtime is O(N log N), which is still more than theoretically optimal O(N), but sadly this is the best idea I've got.
sanjuro at 1up-games dot com 27-Sep-2013 06:18
A serious pitfall when using mb_substr() set to HTML-ENTITIES encoding is that the function performs a number of conversions before returning the value, the worst one being that html special characters are not just counted but decoded.

<?php

mb_internal_encoding
("ISO-8859-1"); echo mb_internal_encoding(),"\n<br><br>\n";

$a='j&uuml;st &#228; &quot; simple &quot; &#26085;&#26412; &lt;b&gt;test&lt;/b&gt;';

echo
mb_substr($a,0),"\n<br><br>\n";
// page source: j&uuml;st &#228; &quot; simple &quot; &#26085;&#26412; &lt;b&gt;test&lt;/b&gt;

echo mb_substr($a,0,strlen($a),'HTML-ENTITIES');
// page source: j&uuml;st &auml; " simple " &#26085;&#26412; <b>test</b>

?>
desmatic at gmail dot com 29-Apr-2013 03:51
quick and dirty loop through multibyte string
<?php
function get_character_classes($string, $encoding = "UTF-8") {
   
$current_encoding = mb_internal_encoding();
   
mb_internal_encoding($encoding);
   
$has = array();
   
$stringlength = mb_strlen($string, $encoding);
    for (
$i=0; $i < $stringlength; $i++) {
       
$c = mb_substr($string, $i, 1);
        if ((
$c >= "0") && ($c <= "9")) {
           
$has['numeric'] = "numeric";
        } else if ((
$c >= "a") && ($c <= "z")) {
           
$has['alpha'] = "alpha";
           
$has['alphalower'] = 'alphalower';
        } else if ((
$c >= "A") && ($c <= "Z")) {
           
$has['alpha'] = "alpha";
           
$has['alphaupper'] = "alphaupper";
        } else if ((
$c == "$") || ($c == "£")) {
           
$has['currency'] = "currency";
        } else if ((
$c == ".") && ($has['decimal'])) {
           
$has['decimals'] = "decimals";
        } else if (
$c == ".") {
           
$has['decimal'] = "decimal";
        } else if (
$c == ",") {
           
$has['comma'] = "comma";
        } else if (
$c == "-") {
           
$has['dash'] = "dash";
        } else if (
$c == " ") {
           
$has['space'] = "space";
        } else if (
$c == "/") {
           
$has['slash'] = "slash";
        } else if (
$c == ":") {
           
$has['colon'] = "colon";
        } else if ((
$c >= " ") && ($c <= "~")) {
           
$has['ascii'] = "ascii";
        } else {
           
$has['binary'] = "binary";
        }
    }
   
mb_internal_encoding($current_encoding);
   
    return
$has;
}

$string = "1234asdfA£^_{}|}~????";
echo
print_r(get_character_classes($string), true);
?>

Array
(
    [numeric] => numeric
    [alpha] => alpha
    [alphalower] => alphalower
    [alphaupper] => alphaupper
    [currency] => currency
    [ascii] => ascii
    [binary] => binary
)
p dot assenov at aip-solutions dot com 02-Dec-2011 09:17
I'm trying to capitalize only the first character of the string and tried some of the examples above but they didn't work. It seems mb_substr() cannot calculate the length of the string in multi-byte encoding (UTF-8) and it should be set explicitly. Here is the corrected version:

<?php
function mb_ucfirst($str, $enc = 'utf-8') {
    return
mb_strtoupper(mb_substr($str, 0, 1, $enc), $enc).mb_substr($str, 1, mb_strlen($str, $enc), $enc);
}
?>

cheers!
projektas at gmail dot com 21-Oct-2008 06:29
First letter in upper case <hr />

<?php
header
('Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=gb2312');

if (isset(
$_POST['check']) && !empty($_POST['check'])) {
    echo
htmlspecialchars(ucfirst_utf8($_POST['check']));
} else {
    echo
htmlspecialchars(ucfirst_utf8('??sin?'));
}

function
ucfirst_utf8($str) {
    if (
mb_check_encoding($str,'UTF-8')) {
       
$first = mb_substr(
           
mb_strtoupper($str, "utf-8"),0,1,'utf-8'
       
);
        return
$first.mb_substr(
           
mb_strtolower($str,"utf-8"),1,mb_strlen($str),'utf-8'
       
);
    } else {
        return
$str;
    }
}
?>

<form method="post" action="" >
    <input type="input" name="check" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>
Silvan 01-Sep-2007 03:30
Passing null as length will not make mb_substr use it's default, instead it will interpret it as 0.
<?php
mb_substr
($str,$start,null,$encoding); //Returns '' (empty string) just like substr()
?>
Instead use:
<?php
mb_substr
($str,$start,mb_strlen($str),$encoding);
?>
xiaogil at yahoo dot fr 02-Aug-2005 08:33
Thanks Darien from /freenode #php for the following example (a little bit changed).

It just prints the 6th character of $string.
You can replace the digits by the same in japanese, chinese or whatever language to make a test, it works perfect.

<?php
mb_internal_encoding
("UTF-8");
$string = "0123456789";
$mystring = mb_substr($string,5,1);
echo
$mystring;
?>

(I couldn't replace 0123456789 by chinese numbers for example here, because it's automatically converted into latin digits on this website, look :
&#38646;&#19968;&#20108;&#19977;&#22235;
&#20116;&#20845;&#19971;&#20843;&#20061;)

gilv
drraf at tlen dot pl 23-Feb-2005 06:44
Note: If borders are out of string - mb_string() returns empty _string_, when function substr() returns _boolean_ false in this case.
Keep this in mind when using "===" comparisions.

Example code:
<?php

var_dump
( substr( 'abc', 5, 2 ) ); // returns "false"
var_dump( mb_substr( 'abc', 5, 2 ) ); // returns ""

?>

It's especially confusing when using mbstring with function overloading turned on.