Strings
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strlen

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

strlen — Get string length

Description

int strlen ( string $string )

Returns the length of the given string .

Parameters

string

The string being measured for length.

Return Values

The length of the string on success, and 0 if the string is empty.

Examples

Example#1 A strlen() example

<?php
$str 
'abcdef';
echo 
strlen($str); // 6

$str ' ab cd ';
echo 
strlen($str); // 7
?>

See Also


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