On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:13:42PM -0600, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > >i need to know how many bytes are in a string > > > >example: > > > >$string = "blah"; > > > >string == how many bytes > > Well, if you're willing to ignore all the unicode stuff, you can use > strlen() since 1 byte = 1 character. Check that manpage to see if there's > a unicode safe version.
strlen will count bytes but not necessarily characters (if unicode is used) Curt. -- cat .signature: No such file or directory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
