grapheme_strlen
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
grapheme_strlen — Get string length in grapheme units
Description
Procedural style
$string): int|false|nullGet string length in grapheme units (not bytes or characters)
Parameters
- 
string
- 
      The string being measured for length. It must be a valid UTF-8 string. 
Return Values
   The length of the string on success,  or false on failure. 
  
Examples
Example #1 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);
?>
The above example will output:
6
See Also
- » Unicode Text Segmentation: Grapheme Cluster Boundaries
- iconv_strlen() - Returns the character count of string
- mb_strlen() - Get string length
- strlen() - Get string length
 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                    
 
          