mb_strlen
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
mb_strlen — Get string length
Description
$string
, ?string $encoding
= null
): intGets the length of a string.
Parameters
-
string
-
The string being checked for length.
-
encoding
-
The
encoding
parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted ornull
, the internal character encoding value will be used.
Return Values
Returns the number of characters in
string string
having character encoding
encoding
. A multi-byte character is
counted as 1.
Errors/Exceptions
If the encoding is unknown, an error of level
E_WARNING
is generated.
Changelog
Version | Description |
---|---|
8.0.0 |
encoding is nullable now.
|
See Also
- mb_internal_encoding() - Set/Get internal character encoding
- grapheme_strlen() - Get string length in grapheme units
- iconv_strlen() - Returns the character count of string
- strlen() - Get string length