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# grapheme_strlen

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grapheme_strlen — Get string length in grapheme units

### Description

Procedural style

int grapheme_strlen ( string `$input` )

Get string length in grapheme units (not bytes or characters)

### Parameters

`input`

  The string being measured for length. It must be a valid UTF-8 string.

### Return Values

The length of the string on success, and 0 if the string is empty.

### Examples

Example #1 grapheme_strlen() example

`< ?php
$char_a_ring_nfd = "a\xCC\x8A"; // 'LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE' (U+00E5) normalization form "D"
$char_o_diaeresis_nfd = "o\xCC\x88"; // 'LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS' (U+00F6) normalization form "D"
print grapheme_strlen( 'abc' . $char_a_ring_nfd . $char_o_diaeresis_nfd . $char_a_ring_nfd);
?>`

The above example will output:

    6

### See Also

- » Unicode Text Segmentation: Grapheme Cluster Boundaries

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