Re: calculate bytes in string

This was exactly what I was trying to avoid. See I was porting a reporting module to write .XLS files to a database, rather than to files. It's easier for me to clean up old reports that way. Anyway, thanks for your help! Regards, Ian Newlands "@ Edwin" <copperwalls@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OE54PDGNZzahL7szm8x00001367@hotmail.com... > Or, > > "Jason Wong" <php-general@gremlins.com.hk> wrote: > > > On Saturday 09 November 2002 14:22, Ian Newlands wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a function, or a method to calculate how many bytes > are > > > in a string? Similar to the filesize file system function. > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Assuming 1 character = 1 byte, then strlen(). > > > > Just write the string to a file first then check the filesize. This should > work (I think) > even if you're dealing with multi-byte characters wherein 1 character = 2 > bytes > (or more?). > > There's mb_strlen() but I don't think it'll be useful though... > > - E