public static function Unicode::strlen

public static Unicode::strlen($text)

Counts the number of characters in a UTF-8 string.

This is less than or equal to the byte count.

Parameters

string $text: The string to run the operation on.

Return value

int The length of the string.

File

core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/Unicode.php, line 283

Class

Unicode

Provides Unicode-related conversions and operations.

Namespace

Drupal\Component\Utility

Code

public static function strlen($text) {
  if (static::getStatus() == static::STATUS_MULTIBYTE) {
    return mb_strlen($text);
  }
  else {
    // Do not count UTF-8 continuation bytes.
    return strlen(preg_replace("/[\x80-\xBF]/", '', $text));
  }
}