Try with mb_strlen see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strlen.php 2013/7/5 Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Trying to manage line breaks in some output I'm generating and using > strlen to measure the lengths of the strings I'm printing. Discovered > something strange (to me!) in that strlen is returning +1 more than it > should. > > The strings are from a query of my database - simple name fields. But > everyone of them is coming back with a length that is one more than I see. > > Ex. > > Mike Hall comes back as 10, not 9 > F.B. comes back as 5, not 4. > > I've looked at my data and counted the chars - there is no extra space at > the beginning or end in my table. > > Anyone have an explanation? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
