PHP Language - string length

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string length

Jeremy Watts

2004-04-21, 6:34 pm

how do you find the length of a string in php?? there seems to be every
command under the sun in the manual to operate on strings but not one for
finding a strings length...

Michael Vilain

2004-04-21, 8:35 pm

In article <aQBhc.70$Rc2.49@newsfe1-win>,
"Jeremy Watts" <jeremy.watts70@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> how do you find the length of a string in php?? there seems to be every
> command under the sun in the manual to operate on strings but not one for
> finding a strings length...

http://www.php.net/strlen

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Steffan S. Fallesen

2004-04-22, 4:30 am

Jeremy Watts wrote:
> how do you find the length of a string in php?? there seems to be every
> command under the sun in the manual to operate on strings but not one for
> finding a strings length...

$s = "Charles went to school";
$r = strlen ($s);
echo "String is " . $r . " char";

# String is 22 char

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