<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >count_chars</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="convert_cyr_string" HREF="function.convert-cyr-string.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="crypt" HREF="function.crypt.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.convert-cyr-string.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.crypt.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.count-chars" >count_chars</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN25626" ></A >count_chars -- Return information abouts characters used in a string. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN25629" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >mixed count_chars</CODE >(string string, [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >mode</SPAN >] );<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Counts the number of occurances of every byte-value (0..255) in <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >string</I ></TT > and returns it in various ways. The optional parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >Mode</I ></TT > default to 0. Depending on <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >mode</I ></TT > <B CLASS="function" >count_chars()</B > returns one of the following: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > 0 - an array with the byte-value as key and the freqency of every byte as value. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > 1 - same as 0 but only byte-values with a frequency greater zero are listed. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > 2 - same as 0 but only byte-values with a frequency equal to zero are listed. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > 3 - a string containing all used byte-values is returned. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > 4 - a string containing all not used byte-values is returned. </P ></LI ></UL > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This function was added in PHP 4.0. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.convert-cyr-string.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.crypt.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >convert_cyr_string</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >crypt</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >