Re: string length?

if you just want to know how many numbers are in it you can do this: $num_of_numbers = sizeof(explode(';',$string)); --Joe On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:46:50PM -0800, Jon Jacob wrote: > 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); > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Stump, PHP Hacker, joestump98@yahoo.com -o) http://www.miester.org http://www.care2.com /\\ "It's not enough to succeed. Everyone else must fail" -- Larry Ellison _\_V -------------------------------------------------------------------------------