Count characters in a variable

[Anon]

Hello. I have a variable with some text in it. And I want to count how many letters are in the variable. I wanna make it so if there are more than 12 letters (including spaces) in the text... that it kills off the remaining letters. Anyone help me with this? Thanks much

Tyler

[daynah]

I think the function you want to use is strlen(). This finds the string length of the variable.

<?

$mystr = "hello";
$stringlength = strlen($mystr);
print "There are $stringlength letters in the word \"$mystr\".";

?>

[daynah]

Opps, I forgot to answer the rest of your question. Here's a short example:

<?php

$mystr = "hello everybody out there in PHP land.";
$stringlength = strlen($mystr);
print "There are $stringlength letters in the word \"$mystr\".";

if($stringlength >= 12)
{
$mystring = substr($mystr, 0, 12);
print "<br><br>The first 12 letters are: \"$mystring\"";
}

else
{

$mystring = $mystr;
print "<br><br>The string is \"$mystring\" and has $stringlength characters in it.";
}

?>

[Anon]

Thanks so much for the help! Ill give it a try : )

Tyler