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PHP: Traversing strings

You can use loops to process strings as well as numbers. Mainly as a way to retrieve a specific character by its index. Below is some sample code that prints the letters of each word on a different line:

<?php

function printNameBySymbol($name)
{
    $i = 0;
    // This check will be performed until the end of the string
    // including the last character. Its index is `line length - 1`.
    while ($i < strlen($name)) {
        // Getting a character by its index
        print_r("$name[$i]\n");
        $i = $i + 1;
    }
}

$name = 'Arya';
printNameBySymbol($name);
// => 'A'
// => 'r'
// => 'y'
// => 'a'

https://replit.com/@hexlet/php-basics-loops-using-printnamebysymbol

The main thing in this code is to set the right condition in while. This can be done in two ways: $i < strlen($name) or $i <= strlen($name) - 1. Both lead to the same result.

Instructions

Write a function, printReversedWordBySymbol(), which takes a word as input and prints it by character, just as in the example we gave, but does it in reverse order.

<?php

$word = 'Hexlet';

printReversedWordBySymbol($word);
// => 't'
// => 'e'
// => 'l'
// => 'x'
// => 'e'
// => 'H'

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Your exercise will be checked with these tests:

1<?php
2
3namespace HexletBasics\Loops\IterationOverString;
4
5use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
6
7class Test extends TestCase
8{
9    public function test()
10    {
11        require 'index.php';
12
13        $str = 'Hexlet';
14        $expected = "t\ne\nl\nx\ne\nH\n";
15        $this->expectOutputString($expected);
16        printReversedWordBySymbol($str);
17    }
18}
19

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