strlen() gives a wrong count

Hello there, I have a 98 characters string (including spaces), wc -c says it's 98 characters and a file containing this string is 98 bytes as well. For some reason - strlen() says it's more... it says it's a 104 characters strings, when I removed the spaces (using sed on the shell and using str_replace on php) - wc said it's 83 characters and strlen() said it's 89... How could that be? is there another way to get the exact number of characters in a string? Thanks. Regards Gil Disatnik UNIX system/security administrator. GibsonLP@EFnet _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ "Windows NT has detected mouse movement, you MUST restart your computer before the new settings will take effect, [ OK ]" -------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows is a 32 bit patch to a 16 bit GUI based on a 8 bit operating system, written for a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company which can not stand 1 bit of competition. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-