Fwd: [PHP] Count the Number of Elements Using Explode

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kyle Terry <kyle@kyleterry.com> Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Count the Number of Elements Using Explode To: Alice Wei <ajwei@alumni.iu.edu> I would use http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.array-count-values.php On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Alice Wei <ajwei@alumni.iu.edu> wrote: > > 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 > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Kyle Terry | www.kyleterry.com -- Kyle Terry | www.kyleterry.com