<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Returns the character count of string</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.iconv-set-encoding.html">iconv_set_encoding</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.iconv-strpos.html">iconv_strpos</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.iconv.html">iconv Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.iconv-strlen" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <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> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.iconv-strlen-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <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> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> 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. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.iconv-strlen-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">str</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The string. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">charset</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> 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>. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.iconv-strlen-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the character count of <em><code class="parameter">str</code></em>, as an integer. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.iconv-strlen-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <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> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.iconv-set-encoding.html">iconv_set_encoding</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.iconv-strpos.html">iconv_strpos</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.iconv.html">iconv Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>