PHP equivalent of getBytes in Java

Question

I have the below Java code:

String Str1 = new String("Welcome to Tutorialspoint.com");
System.out.println(Str1.toString().getBytes("UTF-8"));

The output on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine is: "[B@7041825e".

What would be the above code's PHP equivalent?

Its not as straight forward, and takes a bit of data mangling, but you can reasonably fake it with pack() and unpack(). See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885597/string-to-byte-array-in-php — Uberfuzzy, Aug 27 '14 at 14:32
The `toString()` is redundant (Str1 is already a String), and the result is useless. What are you planning to do with the hashcode of a byte array? — Kayaman, Aug 27 '14 at 14:41

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 27 '14 at 14:19

2

There isn't. PHP doesn't have a distinction between strings and a bunch of bytes.

answered Aug 27 '14 at 14:19

jou

score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 05 '17 at 12:34

-1

You may use strlen() for that purpose.

In your case, mb_strlen() will do.

edited Sep 05 '17 at 12:34

nyedidikeke

answered Aug 27 '14 at 14:16

Jonathan

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