PHP Function Grapheme_Extract
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php function grapheme_extract
This function is used to extract a sequence of default grapheme clusters from a text buffer, which must be encoded in UTF-8.
Unlike the strlen() function, which returns the length of a string as an int value, grapheme_strlen() returns the size of a string in 'grapheme units', rather than bytes or characters. This is important when working with languages that utilize a 'grapheme' based character encoding, such as the Symfony framework.
This version of the function has been modified to consistently clamp out-of-bounds offsets to the first byte position past the end of the string. Previously, the function could incorrectly return an empty string in some cases when an offset was negative.
The 'grapheme_strpos' function is an alternative to the'stripos' function, which can be used when the 'needle' in a string does not have to start at the beginning of the 'haystack'. The 'grapheme_stripos' function can also be used when the haystack does not have to start at the beginning of a string, as it can find a specific occurrence of the 'needle' within the 'haystack' without having to search for all needles in a sequence of 'haystacks'.