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[PHP] strlen is not appropriate

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2018-04-06, 07:09:38

2018-04-06, 20:06:49

Idiom #169 String length

Assign to integer n the number of characters of string s.

This can be different from the number of bytes of s.

Assign to integer n the number of characters of string s.

This can be different from the number of bytes of s.

size

size

$n = strlen($s);

$n = strlen($s);

strlen() returns the number of bytes rather than the number of characters in a string.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php

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