On 31 Oct 2008, at 17:32, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote:
Kyle Terry wrote:
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From: Kyle Terry <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Count the Number of Elements Using Explode
To: Alice Wei <ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I would use http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.array-count-values.php
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:29 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?
Or, am I on the wrong direction here?
Thanks in advance.
Alice
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First of all, don't top post, please.
Secondly, that won't do what the OP asked for. array_count_values
returns an array which tells you how often each VALUE was found in
that array. so: array_count_values(array(1,2,3,4,5)) will return:
array(1=>1,2=>1,3=>1,4=>1,5=>1). While what the OP wanted was:
some_function(array(1,2,3,4,5)) to return 5 (as in the amount of
values, not how often each value was found in the array).
count() would do it directly, and the other suggestions people gave
do it indirectly, assuming that the values between '|' are never > 1
char wide.
I think you'll find Kyle was suggesting that the OP use that function
to count the |'s in the string. Add 1 to that and you have the number
of elements explode will produce. More efficient if you're simply
exploding it to count the elements, but count would be better if you
need to explode them too.
-Stut
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