The strlen Function
The strlen function returns the length of a string
(the number of characters in the string).
It works correctly only with Latin characters (single-byte characters).
Syntax
strlen(string $string): int
Example
In this example, the function will return the length of the string
'abcde':
<?php
echo strlen('abcde');
?>
Code execution result:
5
See Also
-
the
countfunction,
which returns the length of an array
