I would like to retrieve a part of a string determined by Bytes. For example, if the string is likes this:
myText = "abcdefghijklmn";
I would like to take the first 10 bytes from the string, so the result will be: abcdefghij";
I need to calculate by bytes because I need to conside if the input string may not be English. For example if it is chinese, then one chinese letter may use 2 bytes instead.
$myText = "abcdefghijklmn";
echo substr($myText, 0, 10);
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-substr.php
seems mb_substr() would be what you would want to use incase of multi byte (non english) characters...
Originally posted by rolwong
I need to calculate by bytes because I need to conside if the input string may not be English. For example if it is chinese, then one chinese letter may use 2 bytes instead.
So you wouldn't mind if a Chinese two-byte character got chopped in half at the end?
Yes, i worry the letter would be chopped.. any method to solve this? thanks
Originally posted by rolwong
Yes, i worry the letter would be chopped.. any method to solve this? thanks
Okay, so you do want characters, not bytes. In that case tekky's suggestion is a good'un.
