In PHP, strings are used to represent text data. A string is a sequence of characters enclosed in quotes, either single quotes or double quotes. Here are some examples of string literals in PHP:
// Single-quoted string
$name = 'Alice';
// Double-quoted string with variable interpolation
$greeting = "Hello, $name!";
// Double-quoted string with escape sequences
$message = "This is a \"quoted\" message.\nIt spans multiple lines.";
Single-quoted strings are simple and efficient, but they do not support variable interpolation or escape sequences (except for the escape sequence for a single quote: \'). Double-quoted strings are more versatile, as they allow you to include variables and special characters using escape sequences.
In addition to the basic string operations such as concatenation (.) and comparison (== or ===), PHP provides many functions for manipulating strings, such as:strlen($string): Returns the length of the string.
strpos($haystack, $needle): Returns the position of the first occurrence of the substring $needle in the string $haystack, or false if not found.
substr($string, $start, $length): Returns a substring of the string starting from the position $start and with length $length.
strtolower($string) and strtoupper($string): Returns a lowercase or uppercase version of the string, respectively.
trim($string): Returns a copy of the string with whitespace trimmed from the beginning and end.
str_replace($search, $replace, $string): Returns a copy of the string with all occurrences of $search replaced by $replace.
These are just a few examples of the many string functions available in PHP. You can find more information in the PHP documentation.
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