note 85279 added to function.strlen

paolo dot mosna at gmail dot com's solution for getting the length of a unicode string didn't work for me. Instead, I used the following dirty function (which can be surely improved, but I'm giving the idea) : <?php function ustrlen($s) { $a = preg_split("//u", $s); $i = -2; foreach ($a as $b) $i++; return $i; } ?> This will return the correct length for any unicode string. ---- Server IP: 217.174.223.124 Probable Submitter: 82.234.196.129 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/85279 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85279/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85279/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85279/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85279/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85279/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85279/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85279 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/85279 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php