How can i know how many characters are there in a string?

[shelbytll]

How can i know how many characters are there in a string?

for example:
$a = "report";

should return 6.

[rinjani]

maybe try the manual and look for:

strlen()

$a = strlen($my_string);

rinjani

[kevinsequeira]

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$my_string = "1234567890";
$count = mb_strlen($my_string);

echo "$count";

Outputs --> 10

saw this somewhere, not sure if it works ...