javascript have function like strlen php?

Asked Dec 21 '16 at 16:12

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I use this javascript code

<input id="text" value="漢字">
var text_val = document.getElementById("text").value.length;  // result will be 2 //

for as same as php code

$text_val = mb_strlen('漢字', 'utf-8'); // result will be 2 //

And then i want to know what javascript as same as this php code ?

$text_val = strlen("漢字");  // result will be 6 //

asked Dec 21 '16 at 16:12

kalamung kalamong

PHP by default only deals with ASCII strings so its reading each byte. – Daniel A. White Dec 21 '16 at 16:14
Check: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5515869/string-length-in-bytes-in-javascript – Troyer Dec 21 '16 at 16:15
Possibly a better duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5515869/string-length-in-bytes-in-javascript – Quentin Dec 21 '16 at 16:15
@Troyer — jinx! – Quentin Dec 21 '16 at 16:16
Try unescape(encodeURIComponent("漢字")).length (from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5515869/string-length-in-bytes-in-javascript). – mathematicalman Dec 21 '16 at 17:03

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