<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >count_chars</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.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="crc32" HREF="function.crc32.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.crc32.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.count-chars" ></A >count_chars</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN89180" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >count_chars -- Return information about characters used in a string </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN89183" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >mixed <B CLASS="methodname" >count_chars</B > ( string string [, int mode])<BR ></BR ><P > Counts the number of occurrences 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 frequency of every byte as value. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > 1 - same as 0 but only byte-values with a frequency greater than 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 ><P > See also <A HREF="function.strpos.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strpos()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.substr-count.html" ><B CLASS="function" >substr_count()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.convert-cyr-string.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.crc32.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >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" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >crc32</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >