#31730 [NEW]: behaviour of count() with strings

From: tierra at ibaku dot net Operating system: Linux 2.4.27 PHP version: 5.0.3 PHP Bug Type: Arrays related Bug description: behaviour of count() with strings Description: ------------ This may not be a bug, but I would assume with the change in PHP5 (from PHP4) where character access in strings is now done using array operators that count('anystring') would return the length of the string (being the number of array items in the string). I don't see any official documentation on the reasoning for moving to array access operators with strings in PHP5, but I've seen a number of reports that it was for the movement of treating strings as arrays. tierra@ibaku tierra $ php -v PHP 5.0.3 (cli) (built: Dec 21 2004 20:37:03) Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.0.3, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies tierra@ibaku tierra $ php count.php count('string') returns: 1 tierra@ibaku tierra $ uname -a Linux ibaku 2.4.27-linode36-3um #1 Fri Oct 29 00:59:10 EDT 2004 i686 UML User Mode Linux GNU/Linux PHP Version => 5.0.3 System => Linux ibaku 2.4.27-linode36-3um #1 Fri Oct 29 00:59:10 EDT 2004 i686 Build Date => Dec 21 2004 20:26:48 Configure Command => './configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var /lib' '--disable-cgi' '--enable-cli' '--enable-embed' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php/cli-php5' '--disable-bcmath' '--without-bz2' '--disable-calendar' '--without-cpdflib' '--disable-ctype' '--wi th-curl' '--without-curlwrappers' '--disable-dbase' '--disable-dio' '--disable-exif' '--without-fam' '--without-fbsql' '--without-fdftk' '--disable-filepro' '--disable-ftp' '--with-gettext' '--with out-gmp' '--without-hwapi' '--without-iconv' '--without-informix' '--without-ingres' '--without-interbase' '--without-kerberos' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-mcrypt' '--without-mcve' '--disable-memor y-limit' '--without-mhash' '--without-mime-magic' '--without-ming' '--without-mnogosearch' '--without-msql' '--without-mssql' '--with-ncurses' '--without-oci8' '--without-oracle' '--with-openssl' ' --with-openssl-dir=/usr' '--without-ovrimos' '--disable-pcntl' '--without-pfpro' '--without-pgsql' '--disable-posix' '--with-pspell' '--without-recode' '--disable-shmop' '--without-snmp' '--disable -soap' '--disable-sockets' '--disable-spl' '--without-sybase' '--without-sybase-ct' '--disable-sysvmsg' '--disable-sysvsem' '--disable-sysvshm' '--without-tidy' '--disable-tokenizer' '--disable-wdd x' '--with-xsl' '--with-xmlrpc' '--disable-yp' '--with-zlib' '--disable-debug' '--without-cdb' '--with-db4' '--without-dbm' '--without-flatfile' '--with-gdbm' '--without-inifile' '--without-qdbm' ' --with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-t1lib=/usr' '--with-ttf=/usr' '--enable-gd-jis-conf' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-tiff-dir=/usr' '--without-xpm-di r' '--with-gd' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-mysql' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--without-mm' '--without-msession' '--enable-sqlite-utf8' '--enable-dba' '--with-readl ine' '--without-libedit' Reproduce code: --------------- <?php echo "count('string') returns: " . count('string') . "\n"; ?> Expected result: ---------------- count('string') returns: 6 Actual result: -------------- count('string') returns: 1 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31730&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31730&r=mysqlcfg