PHP IntlChar::charName() Function
Last Updated :
24 Apr, 2023
PHP IntlChar::charName() function is an inbuilt function in PHP used to retrieve the name of a Unicode character.
Syntax:
string IntlChar::charName( $codepoint [, $nameChoice =
IntlChar::UNICODE_CHAR_NAME] )
Parameters: This function accepts two parameters as mentioned above and described below:
- $codepoint: This parameter is a character or integer value, which is encoded as a UTF-8 string.
- $nameChoice: The $nameChoice parameter is satisfied one of the following constant conditions:
- IntlChar::UNICODE_CHAR_NAME (default)
- IntlChar::CHAR_NAME_ALIAS
- IntlChar::CHAR_NAME_CHOICE_COUNT
- IntlChar::UNICODE_10_CHAR_NAME
- IntlChar::EXTENDED_CHAR_NAME
Note: The resulting character name is a modern name with Unicode version 1.0 and the name contains “invariant” characters A-Z, 0-9, ” “, and ‘-‘ and depends on its $nameChoice parameter.
Return Value: This function returns the corresponding name of input data. If there is no name of the character then return the empty string.
The below examples illustrate the IntlChar::charName() Function in PHP.
Example 1:
php
<?php
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("*"));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("*", IntlChar::UNICODE_CHAR_NAME));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("("));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("(", IntlChar::UNICODE_10_CHAR_NAME));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("&"));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("&", IntlChar::EXTENDED_CHAR_NAME));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("^"));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("^", IntlChar::CHAR_NAME_ALIAS ));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("`"));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("`", IntlChar::CHAR_NAME_CHOICE_COUNT));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName(" "));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName(" ", IntlChar::UNICODE_CHAR_NAME));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("R"));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("r"));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("R", IntlChar::EXTENDED_CHAR_NAME));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("10"));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("7"));
var_dump(IntlChar::charName("\u{0000}"));
?>
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Output:
string(8) "ASTERISK"
string(8) "ASTERISK"
string(16) "LEFT PARENTHESIS"
string(0) ""
string(9) "AMPERSAND"
string(9) "AMPERSAND"
string(17) "CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT"
string(0) ""
string(12) "GRAVE ACCENT"
NULL
string(5) "SPACE"
string(5) "SPACE"
string(22) "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R"
string(20) "LATIN SMALL LETTER R"
string(22) "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R"
NULL
string(11) "DIGIT SEVEN"
string(0) ""
Example 2:
php
<?php
$arr = array ("G", ".", "8", "/", "000", "\t");
foreach ( $arr as $val ){
var_dump(IntlChar::charName( $val ));
}
?>
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Output:
string(22) "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G"
string(9) "FULL STOP"
string(11) "DIGIT EIGHT"
string(7) "SOLIDUS"
NULL
string(0) ""
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Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/intlchar.charname.php
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