Re: [PHP] strlen ?

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Jim Giner <[email protected]>wrote:

>  I checked them in the db manually.  Clicked on the name, selected it, no
> extra space highlighted.  Cursored through the length of the value - no
> extra movements.
>

That does still not guarantee there are no extra characters. Some
characters are just not visible (NUL, CR, LF, ..)


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> On 7/5/2013 2:36 PM, Matijn Woudt wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Jim Giner <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> On 7/5/2013 1:32 PM, shiplu wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jim Giner <[email protected]
>>> >wrote:
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>>>  Mike Hall  comes back as 10, not 9
>>>> F.B. comes back as 5, not 4.
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>>> Doesn't work for me.
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>>> php > var_dump("Mike Hall", strlen("Mike Hall"));
>>> string(9) "Mike Hall"
>>> int(9)
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>>> Try trimming it first and then apply strlen.
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>>>  Why would I need to trim something that I can already see doesn't have
>> any trailing or leading characters?
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>  Because there are characters you can't see?
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