Counting Tamil string length php

Question

I was developing a site for my customer which uses both English and Tamil languages.

I need to find the length of a Tamil string to generate stripped content.

Can anyone suggest me how to find the length of a Tamil string and substr function for Tamil language.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7537556/length-of-strings-in-unicode-are-different — Rasel, Feb 18 '15 at 11:45

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 27 '16 at 10:16

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Use \pL\pM to count Tamil characters length. It will gives exact count of Tamil letters

$word = "மொழிகளும்";
$regex = "/\pL\pM*|./u";//Unicode letter & Unicode Mark
preg_match_all($regex, $word, $out);
echo count($out[0]);

answered Feb 27 '16 at 10:16

Neechalkaran

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 18 '15 at 11:49

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Better use mb_strlen(). That should take special chars into account. There are multi-byte equivalents of almost all string functions. If this still does not work, try it with the correct encoding.

answered Feb 18 '15 at 11:49

Powerriegel

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Counting Tamil string length php

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