note 110337 deleted from function.strlen by googleguy
| From: | googleguy@php.net | Date: | Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:59:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 110337 deleted from function.strlen by googleguy | ||
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Note Submitter: qeremy [atta] gmail [dotta] com
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A dirty (proper) way to get the real length of charters (not byte length).
<?php
function strlen_unicode($str) {
return count(preg_split("//u", $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY));
}
$s = "Büyük";
echo strlen_unicode($s); // 5
echo mb_strlen($s); // 7
echo strlen($s); // 7
?>