Re: strlen() gives a wrong count
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:17:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: strlen() gives a wrong count | ||
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Well, how are you putting it into the string?
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Gil Disatnik wrote:
> 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
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