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<h1 class="refname">iconv_strlen</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">iconv_strlen</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns the character count of string</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>iconv_strlen</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$str</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$charset</code><span class="initializer"> = ini_get("iconv.internal_encoding")</span></span>
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In contrast to <span class="function"><a href="function.strlen.html" class="function">strlen()</a></span>,
<span class="function"><strong>iconv_strlen()</strong></span> counts the occurrences of characters
in the given byte sequence <em><code class="parameter">str</code></em> on the basis of
the specified character set, the result of which is not necessarily
identical to the length of the string in byte.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">str</code></em></span>
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The string.
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">charset</code></em></span>
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If <em><code class="parameter">charset</code></em> parameter is omitted,
<em><code class="parameter">str</code></em> is assumed to be encoded in
<a href="iconv.configuration.html" class="link">iconv.internal_encoding</a>.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns the character count of <em><code class="parameter">str</code></em>, as an integer.
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.strlen.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">strlen()</a> - Get string length</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-strlen.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mb_strlen()</a> - Get string length</span></li>
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