function drupal_strlen

Count the amount of characters in a UTF-8 string. This is less than or equal to the byte count.

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PHP wrapper functions
Functions that are wrappers or custom implementations of PHP functions.
32 calls to drupal_strlen()

File

drupal/core/includes/unicode.inc, line 397

Code

function drupal_strlen($text) {
  global $multibyte;
  if ($multibyte == UNICODE_MULTIBYTE) {
    return mb_strlen($text);
  }
  else {

    // Do not count UTF-8 continuation bytes.
    return strlen(preg_replace("", '', $text));
  }
}