On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I checked them in the db manually. Clicked on the name, selected it, no > extra space highlighted. Cursored through the length of the value - no > extra movements. > That does still not guarantee there are no extra characters. Some characters are just not visible (NUL, CR, LF, ..) > > On 7/5/2013 2:36 PM, Matijn Woudt wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> On 7/5/2013 1:32 PM, shiplu wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >wrote: >>> >>> Mike Hall comes back as 10, not 9 >>>> F.B. comes back as 5, not 4. >>>> >>>> >>> Doesn't work for me. >>> >>> php > var_dump("Mike Hall", strlen("Mike Hall")); >>> string(9) "Mike Hall" >>> int(9) >>> >>> Try trimming it first and then apply strlen. >>> >>> >>> Why would I need to trim something that I can already see doesn't have >> any trailing or leading characters? >> >> > Because there are characters you can't see? > > >