#21495 [Com]: strlen, substr and so on bug

ID: 21495 Comment by: public at hverdag dot dk Reported By: roger4a45 at yahoo dot es Status: Bogus Bug Type: Strings related Operating System: windows 2000 server sp3 PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: Excuse me roger4a45, but isn't that exactly what the problem is?! That it returns another output than expected?! It returns 0 where it SHOULD return something around 50! I probably have the same problem with strlen. When I use this: if (strlen($mydateformat) < 4) ...and I _KNOW_ that $mydateformat is longer than 0, it often returns the length 0! But then when I reload the page the error doesn't occur again - usually only the first time I run this page in a new browser window! To me this really sounds like a bug... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-07 12:26:55] roger4a45 at yahoo dot es A bug is when a function don't work properly... so, if I make strlen("<HTML>") i wait that output will be 6. if strlen produce another result is a bug. Ok. I will try to comment it to support forum. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-07 12:22:30] derick@php.net Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Thank you for your interest in PHP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-07 12:17:59] roger4a45 at yahoo dot es whe we use strlen or substr there is a bug if parameter string is something like this: $a = "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>something</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>hi!</BODY><HTML>"; $b = strlen($a); echo $b; output is 0 rather real length of string.... Substr don't work right if we use same $a... any idea? Is use a PHP 4.2.3 (ZIP file) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21495&edit=1