mb_strlen
mb_strlen
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)
mb_strlen — Get string length
Description
mixed mb_strlen ( string $str [, string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding() ] )
Gets the length of a string.
Parameters
-
str -
The string being checked for length.
-
encoding -
The
encodingparameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.
Return Values
Returns the number of characters in string str having character encoding encoding. A multi-byte character is counted as 1.
Returns FALSE if the given encoding is invalid.
This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE. Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.
See Also
- mb_internal_encoding() - Set/Get internal character encoding
- grapheme_strlen() - Get string length in grapheme units
- iconv_strlen() - Returns the character count of string
- strlen() - Get string length
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