#31730 [Opn->Bgs]: behaviour of count() with strings

ID: 31730 Updated by: gschlossnagle@php.net Reported By: tierra at ibaku dot net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Arrays related Operating System: Linux 2.4.27 PHP Version: 5.0.3 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php strings are still strings. this would break all kinds of bc. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-27 22:05:34] tierra at ibaku dot net 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31730&edit=1