mb_strlen only gives number of bytes,not what I wanted.
It should work with multibyte characters.
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111answers:
6No,it's wrong...
openid
2010-04-28 10:13:32
It's correct, perhaps PHP doesn't recognize your string as Multibyte string? Try something like this: mb_strlen($your_multibyte_string,$encoding) where encoding should be something like "UTF-8" or "UTF-16"
jigfox
2010-04-28 10:31:21
How do you use mb_strlen, and what encoding is used for the string you're testing ?
Arkh
2010-04-28 11:18:17
A:
mb_strlen the string being measured for length.
<?php
$str = 'abcdef';
echo strlen($str); // 6
$str = ' ab cd ';
echo strlen($str); // 7
?>
Directly from the documentation.
Russell Dias
2010-04-28 10:11:57
A:
If you are using UTF-8 encoding step thru all bytes in string and count the chars which have the 8th bit NOT set.
This solution does not need the mb extension.
Bernd Ott
2010-04-28 10:13:06
A:
I am not sure about mb_strlen, but I use just plain old strlen myself... http://php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php
RandyMorris
2010-05-02 23:52:02