Re: strlen ?
| From: | Matijn Woudt | Date: | Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:42:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: strlen ? | ||
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On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com>wrote:
> I checked them in the db manually. Clicked on the name, selected it, no
> extra space highlighted. Cursored through the length of the value - no
> extra movements.
>
That does still not guarantee there are no extra characters. Some
characters are just not visible (NUL, CR, LF, ..)
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> On 7/5/2013 2:36 PM, Matijn Woudt wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com>wrote:
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>> On 7/5/2013 1:32 PM, shiplu wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@albanyhandball.com
>>> >wrote:
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>>> Mike Hall comes back as 10, not 9
>>>> F.B. comes back as 5, not 4.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Doesn't work for me.
>>>
>>> php > var_dump("Mike Hall", strlen("Mike Hall"));
>>> string(9) "Mike Hall"
>>> int(9)
>>>
>>> Try trimming it first and then apply strlen.
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>>> Why would I need to trim something that I can already see doesn't have
>> any trailing or leading characters?
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> Because there are characters you can't see?
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