Count the Number of Elements Using Explode

Hi, I have a code snippet here as follows: $message="1|2|3|4|5"; $stringChunks = explode("|", $message); Is it possible to find out the number of elements in this string? It seems that I could do things like print_r and find out what is the last element of $stringChunks is, but is there a way where I can use code from the two lines and have it print out 5 as the number of elements that contains after the splitting? Or, am I on the wrong direction here? Thanks in advance. Alice _________________________________________________________________ Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search: Try it now! http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=weather&FORM=WLMTAG