Er.. does strlen($text) not work for you... ? Rich -----Original Message----- From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Michael C. Foroobar Sent: 23 January 2003 22:54 To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: [thelist] PHP variable functions Here is my dilemna: I have a string coming out of a MySQL database and it is put into a PHP variable which I'll call $text. Counting the words in the string is a trivial thing, but what I want to do is figure out of the size of the string in bytes... I can't think of a way to do this in PHP or MySQL, so any help would be appreciated, especially via ICQ. --- Xavier email: xavier at exit13.f2o.org icq: 195454488 "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde