Re: strlen

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 05:49, David OBrien wrote: > I'm having a heck of a time getting something to work like it should > > I have a script which reads a list of words one per line > I want it to display the length of the word a tab then the word. No > matter how I code it it still only shows the word alone on strlen. Any > ideas? > > <? > $handle = fopen ("./ospd3.txt", "r"); > while (!feof($handle)) { > $wordlist[]=fread($handle,4096); > } > fclose($handle); > uasort($wordlist, "sortbylength"); > foreach ($wordlist as $word) { > $lent = strlen($word); > print "$lent"."\t"."$word"."\n"; > } > exit; > > > function sortbylength($arr,$brr) { > $alen = strlen($arr); > $blen = strlen($brr); > if ($alen == $blen) { > return 0; > } > return ($alen > $blen) ? -1 : 1; > } > ?> > > sample of the ospd3.txt <SNIP> > Thanks If you are outputting that to a browser, be aware that, unless the output is enclosed in <PRE> tags, the browser will ignore the tabs. Tabs, multiple spaces and end of line dharacters are all ignored. Alternatively, you could build it into a <TABLE> structure. -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Not a real tagline, but an incredible soy substitute.