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I'm using strlen() to count the number of chars in a text, but it even counts newline \n. Can i replace newlines is some way to make strlen() don't count them?

Antoder
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    Considere adding code to your question ;) For your problem, you could copy your string to a temporary one, strip the newlines from it then count the number of char in this temporary string – Veve Nov 22 '14 at 17:41
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    `strlen(str_replace("\n", "", $str));` – DarkBee Nov 22 '14 at 17:45

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use this first replace all new line character by null and than count length. 

echo strlen(str_replace(array("\n", "\r\n", "\r"), '', $string));
dadarya
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<?php
$string = "Testing \n testing";


$x = strlen(str_replace(array("\n","\r","\r\n"), "", $string)); //replace '\n \r' with nothing before counting the rest
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joar
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you can subtract one, like this:

$x = stlen(str);
$x--;
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