Re: string length?
| From: | Jon Jacob | Date: | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:46:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: string length? | ||
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Kevin Connolly wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am quite new to PHP scripts and I have run into a little problem with my string!
> I have a string called $numbers which is 5;6;12;21;36;42 (for example, it can be any 6 numbers
> between 1 and 42).
> Is there an easy way that I can find out how many numbers there are in the string without the
> five semi-colons??
> I was playing around with count_chars but had no success!
> then i tried converting it to an array and counting the number of elements in the array but
> unfortunatley it put the whole string in as the first element of the array and returned a size of 1!
> I would appreciate any help you can give me,
> Cheers,
> Kevin.
Use split.
(@ArrayName) = split (":", $numbers);
$ElementsNum = count(@ArrayName);