String Length ??

Hi there I'm new to PHP (as some may know)... ive spotted / Found the answers to 2-3 problems tonight - By looking through the PHP documentation.. but this problem is perplexing.. Ok - Ive got a FORM - Which basically, I put lots of text into it (For testing purposes, I go to news websites & copy entire articles). The PHP script chops up the paragraphs - into one long line of text (one line per paragraph..), & its in an array $text. Ok - I loop through the array, & all the text is how it should be - displaying properly.. PROBLEM :- Now - All I want to know - Is how long each line is - (eg number of characters - Ive already removed double-spaces & its now single-spacing (if any)..) EG - Is a line 34 characters long, 127, 945 ? Ive looked through the PHP 'Functions' & the PHP 'documentation' for "length" (couldnt find anything.. ??) Ive found this command :- http://nz2.php.net/strlen Which seems perfectly fine... Ive got this code (without the === signs) ======= foreach ($text as $color) { echo "SAF '$color' - "; echo "<B>".strlen($color)."</B><BR>\n"; } ======= the SAF is only for my reference - See it on the screen.. QUESTION :- Is this the right code to use ? to find the length of each line ? ($color) - No worries - Ive just copied code from the web..) PROBLEM :- It looks fine - EXCEPT when I see a 3-line paragraph - & the PHP code is telling me its over 1,200 characters long.. (assuming 80 characters per line, 100 AT MAXIMUM) - thats only 240 -300 characters... If the paragraph were 1200 characters - That would need 8-10 lines of text... So - Im asking here (see above)... - If Ive got the correct code / Command... Thanks for the help... G __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html