Hello Daniel, DPB> does it return the number of characters within a string --- instead, DPB> as you likely know, you'd use strlen(). For sure. But I'm asking: why it doesn't return 0 if it is not an array? Logically: no array - no items! -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule Facebook: http://facebook.com/menelion -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php