note 104872 added to function.grapheme-extract

Here's how to use grapheme_extract() to loop across a UTF-8 string character by character. <?php $str = "سabcक’…"; // if the previous line didn't come through, the string contained: //U+0633,U+0061,U+0062,U+0063,U+0915,U+2019,U+2026 $n = 0; for ( $start = 0, $next = 0, $maxbytes = strlen($str), $c = ''; $start < $maxbytes; $c = grapheme_extract($str, 1, GRAPHEME_EXTR_MAXCHARS , ($start = $next), $next) ) { if (empty($c)) continue; echo "This utf8 character is " . strlen($c) . " bytes long and its first byte is " . ord($c[0]) . "\n"; $n++; } echo "$n UTF-8 characters in a string of $maxbytes bytes!\n"; // Should print: 7 UTF8 characters in a string of 14 bytes! ?> ---- Server IP: 87.124.126.116 Probable Submitter: 92.234.209.141 (proxied: 92.234.209.141) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.grapheme-extract.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/104872 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104872/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104872/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104872/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104872/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104872/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104872/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104872 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/104872 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php