grapheme_strlen

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
Get string length in grapheme units
int grapheme_strlen ( string $input )

Procedural style

Get string length in grapheme units (not bytes or characters)

Parameters:
input

The string being measured for length. It must be a valid UTF-8 string.

Returns:

The length of the string on success, and 0 if the string is empty.

Examples:
grapheme_strlen() example
<?php

$char_a_ring_nfd = "a\xCC\x8A";  // 'LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE' (U+00E5) normalization form "D"
$char_o_diaeresis_nfd = "o\xCC\x88"; // 'LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS' (U+00F6) normalization form "D"

print grapheme_strlen( 'abc' . $char_a_ring_nfd . $char_o_diaeresis_nfd . $char_a_ring_nfd);

?>

See also:

» Unicode Text Segmentation: Grapheme Cluster Boundaries -

iconv_strlen() -

mb_strlen() -

strlen() -

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2016-02-24 15:58:05
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