Hi Alice, U can simple do: $nr = ( strlen( $message ) / 2 ) + 1 ); $nr = count( explode( '|', $message ); On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Alice Wei <ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a code snippet here as follows: > > > > $message="1|2|3|4|5"; > > $stringChunks = explode("|", $message); > > > > Is it possible to find out the number of elements in this string? It > seems that I could do things like print_r and find out what is the last > element of $stringChunks is, but is there a way where I can use code from > the two lines and have it print out 5 as the number of elements that > contains after the splitting? > > http://php.net/strlen > http://php.net/count > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > http://www.parasane.net/ > daniel.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx || danbrown@xxxxxxx > Ask me about our current hosting/dedicated server deals! > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Thanks, Diogo Neves Web Developer @ SAPO.pt by PrimeIT.pt