Any character in a string can be accessed by a special string element expression:

► $string{index} - The index is the position of the character counted from left and starting from 0.

Here is a PHP script example:

<?php

$string = 'It's Friday!';

echo "The first character is $string{0} ";

echo "The first character is {$string{0}} ";

?>

This script will print:

The first character is It's Friday!{0}

The first character is I