String operators in php

PHP String Operators

In this article, I would have discussed string operators in PHP. We can use the string operator for performing some task. PHP has two sting operators, Let’s see in detail.

Two types of string operators

Concatenation Operator

• A dot (.) indicates the concatenation operator.
• It converts the LHS and RHS operands to the string format and forms a new string by combining them.

Example of Concatenation operator

; ehco "Life" . "Style"; // Lifestyle ?>

1. In the above code, we have printed a String “Thank” then we use the concatenation operation (.) and we have another string “you“.
2. The output is returned by combining two strings “Thankyou“.
3. If you give an integer there will be converted into a string and then combined.

Shorthand concatenation assignment operator

• equals sign “=” indicates shorthand concatenation, assignment operator.
• It converts the LHS and RHS operands to the string format and formats a new string by combining them and assigns the resultant sting to the left hand side variable.

Note: It is recommended to add space before and after the string operators

Example for Shorthand concatenation assignment operator

1. Here we have the string “john“, it is stored inside the “name” variable.
2. We know that We can display value inside the “name” variable. So, we use “echo” for printing variable values.
3. Now, you want to append some String to it, so we can use the “.=” sign dot with an equals sign to append any string to it.
4. See the above code, we have written $name .= ” Wick”, we say take the current value of variable “name” then append to string “wick”. So the output is “john wich“

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String operators in php

There are two string operators. The first is the concatenation operator (‘.’), which returns the concatenation of its right and left arguments. The second is the concatenating assignment operator (‘ .= ‘), which appends the argument on the right side to the argument on the left side. Please read Assignment Operators for more information.

$a = «Hello » ;
$b = $a . «World!» ; // now $b contains «Hello World!»

$a = «Hello » ;
$a .= «World!» ; // now $a contains «Hello World!»
?>

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User Contributed Notes 6 notes

As for me, curly braces serve good substitution for concatenation, and they are quicker to type and code looks cleaner. Remember to use double quotes (» «) as their content is parced by php, because in single quotes (‘ ‘) you’ll get litaral name of variable provided:

// This works:
echo «qwe < $a >rty» ; // qwe12345rty, using braces
echo «qwe» . $a . «rty» ; // qwe12345rty, concatenation used

// Does not work:
echo ‘qwerty’ ; // qwerty, single quotes are not parsed
echo «qwe $arty » ; // qwe, because $a became $arty, which is undefined

A word of caution — the dot operator has the same precedence as + and -, which can yield unexpected results.

The above will print out «3» instead of «Result: 6», since first the string «Result3» is created and this is then added to 3 yielding 3, non-empty non-numeric strings being converted to 0.

To print «Result: 6», use parantheses to alter precedence:

» < $str1 >< $str2 > < $str3 >» ; // one concat = fast
$str1 . $str2 . $str3 ; // two concats = slow
?>
Use double quotes to concat more than two strings instead of multiple ‘.’ operators. PHP is forced to re-concatenate with every ‘.’ operator.

If you attempt to add numbers with a concatenation operator, your result will be the result of those numbers as strings.

echo «thr» . «ee» ; //prints the string «three»
echo «twe» . «lve» ; //prints the string «twelve»
echo 1 . 2 ; //prints the string «12»
echo 1.2 ; //prints the number 1.2
echo 1 + 2 ; //prints the number 3

Some bitwise operators (the and, or, xor and not operators: & | ^ ~ ) also work with strings too since PHP4, so you don’t have to loop through strings and do chr(ord($s[i])) like things.

See the documentation of the bitwise operators: https://www.php.net/operators.bitwise

Be careful so that you don’t type «.» instead of «;» at the end of a line.

It took me more than 30 minutes to debug a long script because of something like this:

The output is «axbc», because of the dot on the first line.

• Operators
  • Operator Precedence
  • Arithmetic Operators
  • Assignment Operators
  • Bitwise Operators
  • Comparison Operators
  • Error Control Operators
  • Execution Operators
  • Incrementing/Decrementing Operators
  • Logical Operators
  • String Operators
  • Array Operators
  • Type Operators

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  PHP Operators

  Operators are used to perform operations on variables and values.

  PHP divides the operators in the following groups:

  • Arithmetic operators
  • Assignment operators
  • Comparison operators
  • Increment/Decrement operators
  • Logical operators
  • String operators
  • Array operators
  • Conditional assignment operators

  PHP Arithmetic Operators

  The PHP arithmetic operators are used with numeric values to perform common arithmetical operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication etc.

  Operator	Name	Example	Result	Show it
  +	Addition	$x + $y	Sum of $x and $y	Try it »
  —	Subtraction	$x — $y	Difference of $x and $y	Try it »
  *	Multiplication	$x * $y	Product of $x and $y	Try it »
  /	Division	$x / $y	Quotient of $x and $y	Try it »
  %	Modulus	$x % $y	Remainder of $x divided by $y	Try it »
  **	Exponentiation	$x ** $y	Result of raising $x to the $y’th power	Try it »

  PHP Assignment Operators

  The PHP assignment operators are used with numeric values to write a value to a variable.

  The basic assignment operator in PHP is «=». It means that the left operand gets set to the value of the assignment expression on the right.

  Assignment	Same as.	Description	Show it
  x = y	x = y	The left operand gets set to the value of the expression on the right	Try it »
  x += y	x = x + y	Addition	Try it »
  x -= y	x = x — y	Subtraction	Try it »
  x *= y	x = x * y	Multiplication	Try it »
  x /= y	x = x / y	Division	Try it »
  x %= y	x = x % y	Modulus	Try it »

  PHP Comparison Operators

  The PHP comparison operators are used to compare two values (number or string):

  Operator	Name	Example	Result	Show it
  ==	Equal	$x == $y	Returns true if $x is equal to $y	Try it »
  ===	Identical	$x === $y	Returns true if $x is equal to $y, and they are of the same type	Try it »
  !=	Not equal	$x != $y	Returns true if $x is not equal to $y	Try it »
  <>	Not equal	$x <> $y	Returns true if $x is not equal to $y	Try it »
  !==	Not identical	$x !== $y	Returns true if $x is not equal to $y, or they are not of the same type	Try it »
  >	Greater than	$x > $y	Returns true if $x is greater than $y	Try it »
  	Less than	$x < $y	Returns true if $x is less than $y	Try it »
  >=	Greater than or equal to	$x >= $y	Returns true if $x is greater than or equal to $y	Try it »
  	Less than or equal to	$x	Returns true if $x is less than or equal to $y	Try it »
  	Spaceship	$x $y	Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero, depending on if $x is less than, equal to, or greater than $y. Introduced in PHP 7.	Try it »

  PHP Increment / Decrement Operators

  The PHP increment operators are used to increment a variable’s value.

  The PHP decrement operators are used to decrement a variable’s value.

  Operator	Name	Description	Show it
  ++$x	Pre-increment	Increments $x by one, then returns $x	Try it »
  $x++	Post-increment	Returns $x, then increments $x by one	Try it »
  —$x	Pre-decrement	Decrements $x by one, then returns $x	Try it »
  $x—	Post-decrement	Returns $x, then decrements $x by one	Try it »

  PHP Logical Operators

  The PHP logical operators are used to combine conditional statements.

  Operator	Name	Example	Result	Show it
  and	And	$x and $y	True if both $x and $y are true	Try it »
  or	Or	$x or $y	True if either $x or $y is true	Try it »
  xor	Xor	$x xor $y	True if either $x or $y is true, but not both	Try it »
  &&	And	$x && $y	True if both $x and $y are true	Try it »
  ||	Or	$x || $y	True if either $x or $y is true	Try it »
  !	Not	!$x	True if $x is not true	Try it »

  PHP String Operators

  PHP has two operators that are specially designed for strings.

  Operator	Name	Example	Result	Show it
  .	Concatenation	$txt1 . $txt2	Concatenation of $txt1 and $txt2	Try it »
  .=	Concatenation assignment	$txt1 .= $txt2	Appends $txt2 to $txt1	Try it »

  PHP Array Operators

  The PHP array operators are used to compare arrays.

  Operator	Name	Example	Result	Show it
  +	Union	$x + $y	Union of $x and $y	Try it »
  ==	Equality	$x == $y	Returns true if $x and $y have the same key/value pairs	Try it »
  ===	Identity	$x === $y	Returns true if $x and $y have the same key/value pairs in the same order and of the same types	Try it »
  !=	Inequality	$x != $y	Returns true if $x is not equal to $y	Try it »
  <>	Inequality	$x <> $y	Returns true if $x is not equal to $y	Try it »
  !==	Non-identity	$x !== $y	Returns true if $x is not identical to $y	Try it »

  PHP Conditional Assignment Operators

  The PHP conditional assignment operators are used to set a value depending on conditions:

  Operator	Name	Example	Result	Show it
  ?:	Ternary	$x = expr1 ? expr2 : expr3	Returns the value of $x. The value of $x is expr2 if expr1 = TRUE. The value of $x is expr3 if expr1 = FALSE	Try it »
  ??	Null coalescing	$x = expr1 ?? expr2	Returns the value of $x. The value of $x is expr1 if expr1 exists, and is not NULL. If expr1 does not exist, or is NULL, the value of $x is expr2. Introduced in PHP 7	Try it »

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