Count number of characters

[jroy]

Ok, I'm importing a text file into a php file using $textfile = file("FilePath"), is there any easy way to count the number of characters in a certain line? Like if I wanted to have a loop go through each line and count how many characters it is and then do a certain action?

Thanks,
Josh

 

[Keral_Patel]

strlen function can do this.

<?php
$string = "Hi it is me Nick";
$length = strlen($string);
echo "The string: $string <br>Is $length characters long";
?>

 

[jroy]

Thanks, I knew there was a function to do this, but couldn't remember what it was.

 

[jroy]

Ok, I created my script to open the file and count the number of characters in the string, but the value it inserts into a database for each line is always 2 more then the actual value except for the last line it seems.

 

[Barrucadu]

That is because of the CrLf (\r\n) at the end of the string

<?php 
$string = trim($string);
$length = strlen($string); 
echo "The string: $string <br>Is $length characters long"; 
?>

 

[jroy]

Thanks.

 

[vinodkv]

use addslashes also...