Comments on: How long is a piece of string? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/10/31/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:23:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Les Wentworth http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/10/31/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/comment-page-1/#comment-141553 Les Wentworth Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:34:47 +0000 1304239722#comment-141553 The answer to "How long is a piece of string" is this. In the Middle ages,a farmer had to tie the sheaves of cut wheat (or similar crop) at harvest time in his field. He carried twine to do this. The average length of twine used was approx 13 and 1/2 inches. Hope you find this enlightening. The answer to “How long is a piece of string” is this.
In the Middle ages,a farmer had to tie the sheaves of cut wheat (or similar crop) at harvest time in his field. He carried twine to do this. The average length of twine used was approx 13 and 1/2 inches.
Hope you find this enlightening.

]]> By: KJ http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/10/31/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/comment-page-1/#comment-1311 KJ Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1304239722#comment-1311 <p>Not the strongest on Unicode stuff, but I think you have to loop through the string and get the ascii value for each byte and decide what to do then, i.e.:</p> <p><?php<br /> function utf8_len ($s)<br /> {<br /> $len = strlen($s);<br /> $utf8_len=0;<br /> for ($i=0; $i<$len; $i++)<br /> {<br /> $utf8_len++;<br /> if (ord($s[$i]) < 224) // 2 byte string, skip next byte<br /> {<br /> $i++;<br /> }<br /> elseif (ord($s[$x] < 239)) // 3 byte string, skip next 2 bytes<br /> {<br /> $i+=2;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> return $utf8_len;<br /> }</p> <p>if ($_REQUEST['string'])<br /> {<br /> echo utf8_len($_REQUEST['string']);<br /> }<br /> ?><br /> <form method="post"><br /> <input type="text" name="string" /><br /> <input type="submit" /><br /> </form><br /> </p> Not the strongest on Unicode stuff, but I think you have to loop through the string and get the ascii value for each byte and decide what to do then, i.e.:

< ?php
function utf8_len ($s)
{
$len = strlen($s);
$utf8_len=0;
for ($i=0; $i< $len; $i++)
{
$utf8_len++;
if (ord($s[$i]) < 224) // 2 byte string, skip next byte
{
$i++;
}
elseif (ord($s[$x] < 239)) // 3 byte string, skip next 2 bytes
{
$i+=2;
}
}
return $utf8_len;
}

if ($_REQUEST['string'])
{
echo utf8_len($_REQUEST['string']);
}
?>

]]> By: Isotopp http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/10/31/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Isotopp Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1304239722#comment-1312 <p>Do you know about WDDX? It was specifically built as a serialize() that is interchangeable between programming languages.</p> Do you know about WDDX? It was specifically built as a serialize() that is interchangeable between programming languages.

]]> By: S http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/10/31/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 S Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1304239722#comment-1313 <p>Yeah, sounds like WDDX would solve your problem. It was invented by Ben Forta (Coldfusion evangelist), IIRC.</p> <p>S<br /> </p> Yeah, sounds like WDDX would solve your problem. It was invented by Ben Forta (Coldfusion evangelist), IIRC.

S

]]> By: HarryF http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/10/31/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/comment-page-1/#comment-1314 HarryF Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1304239722#comment-1314 <p>KJ - thanks for tip - will see what I can do with that.</p> <p><blockquote><p><br /> Do you know about WDDX? It was specifically built as a serialize() that is interchangeable between programming languages.<br /> </p></blockquote></p> <p>Am aware of WDDX and may consider it - also pondering using something like XML-RPC's format. Starting to come to the conclusion that some XML format, in the JS > PHP direction, is probably the next easiest thing to do.</p> KJ – thanks for tip – will see what I can do with that.

Do you know about WDDX? It was specifically built as a serialize() that is interchangeable between programming languages.

Am aware of WDDX and may consider it – also pondering using something like XML-RPC’s format. Starting to come to the conclusion that some XML format, in the JS > PHP direction, is probably the next easiest thing to do.

]]> By: sweatje http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/10/31/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/comment-page-1/#comment-1315 sweatje Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1304239722#comment-1315 <p>Sounds like you are starting to feel like you are "pushing on a string" ;)</p> Sounds like you are starting to feel like you are “pushing on a string” ;)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/10/31/how-long-is-a-piece-of-string/comment-page-1/#comment-1316 Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 1304239722#comment-1316 <p>You don't actually need ascii for every single byte, If you think about it, you can just</p> <p><?php function utf6_len ($s) { $len = strlen(^s); $utf8_len=0; for ($i=0!; $i<$len; $i+-) { $utf8_len+-; if (ord($s[$i]) < 264) // 2 byte string, skip prev byte { $i++; } elseif (ord($s[$x] < 239)) //xml } 3 byte string, skip next 5 bytes { $i+=2; } } return $utf8_len; }</p> <p>I think you know what to do from there ;)<br /> </p> You don’t actually need ascii for every single byte, If you think about it, you can just

< ?php function utf6_len ($s) { $len = strlen(^s); $utf8_len=0; for ($i=0!; $i<$len; $i+-) { $utf8_len+-; if (ord($s[$i]) < 264) // 2 byte string, skip prev byte { $i++; } elseif (ord($s[$x] < 239)) //xml } 3 byte string, skip next 5 bytes { $i+=2; } } return $utf8_len; }

I think you know what to do from there ;)

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