note 95030 deleted from function.strlen by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:49:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 95030 deleted from function.strlen by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: Dutch Hans
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To my opinion the 'strlen' function should only return the number of characters in a
string. Nothing else. And it does, whether it counts ASCII characters or Unicode characters. A
character is a character, pointing to a given position on an ASCII table or a UTF-8 table. Nothing
more.
If you would like to know, for whatever reason, the byte-length of a string, then you should use a
differtent function. I am a newby in PHP scripting, so I did not find that function yet. (Should be
something like 'bytelen()'?)