Re: really no way to get byte size of variable?

"Baroiller Pierre-Emmanuel" <baroiller@daoditu.com> wrote in message news:20030716220130.20461.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi, > > did you try count($value) and strlen($value) ? > count($value) will give size of an array, and strlen($value) size of a > string ... Actually, count($value) returns the amount of values within the array, not the size of it all. If strlen($value) would be enough for you to determine the amount of bytes, you could use this for an array (note that keys are stored as well and thus take memory): foreach ($array as $key => $val) { $total_size += strlen($key) + strlen($val); } But I'm really not sure how PHP stores arrays, so I don't know if $total_size is even close to the amount of bytes used for an array. -- [Win2000 | Apache/1.3.23] [PHP/4.2.3 | MySQL/3.23.53] Ivo Fokkema PHP & MySQL programmer Leiden University Medical Centre Netherlands