Re: [PHP] strlen ?

Try with mb_strlen

see
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strlen.php


2013/7/5 Jim Giner <[email protected]>

> Trying to manage line breaks in some output I'm generating and using
> strlen to measure the lengths of the strings I'm printing.  Discovered
> something strange (to me!) in that strlen is returning +1 more than it
> should.
>
> The strings are from a query of my database - simple name fields.  But
> everyone of them is coming back with a length that is one more than I see.
>
> Ex.
>
> Mike Hall  comes back as 10, not 9
> F.B. comes back as 5, not 4.
>
> I've looked at my data and counted the chars - there is no extra space at
> the beginning or end in my table.
>
> Anyone have an explanation?
>
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