Weird array

[Dominik B.]

I'm executing these commands:

$text="example text";
$parts=explode( " ", $text);
$result=$parts[0];

$result becomes a weird array.

echo "$result" prints 'example',

but if I use function count_chars($re sult) i got error message, that $result
is an array not a string.

Please tell me how to make my $result be a string

Thanks

Domin
domin(at)zyx.pl

[Eric Veltman]

Re: Weird array

Hello Dominik,

Dominik B. wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm executing these commands:
>
> $text="example text";
> $parts=explode( " ", $text);
> $result=$parts[0];
>
> $result becomes a weird array.
>
> echo "$result" prints 'example',
>
> but if I use function count_chars($re sult) i got error message, that
> $result is an array not a string.
>
> Please tell me how to make my $result be a string[/color]

There's nothing wrong with the code you posted,
I tried it on my machine.

What may be causing some confusion is count_chars().
Please realize that this function is _not_ for getting
the string length. Instead it by default returns an array
of all possible characters and the number of times they occur
in the string.

If you want a function that simply returns the string length,
then strlen() is what you're looking for.

Best regards,

Eric