count_chars
(PHP 4 , PHP 5)
count_chars --
Return information about characters used in a string
Description
mixed
count_chars ( string string [, int mode])
Counts the number of occurrences of every byte-value (0..255) in
string and returns it in various ways.
The optional parameter mode defaults to
0. Depending on mode
count_chars() returns one of the following:
0 - an array with the byte-value as key and the frequency of
every byte as value.
1 - same as 0 but only byte-values with a frequency greater
than zero are listed.
2 - same as 0 but only byte-values with a frequency equal to
zero are listed.
3 - a string containing all used byte-values is returned.
4 - a string containing all not used byte-values is returned.
Example 1. count_chars() example
<?php
$data = "Two Ts and one F.";
$result = count_chars($data, 0);
for ($i=0; $i < count($result); $i++) {
if ($result[$i] != 0)
echo "There were $result[$i] instance(s) of \"" , chr($i) , "\" in the string.\n";
}
?>
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This will output :
There were 4 instance(s) of " " in the string.
There were 1 instance(s) of "." in the string.
There were 1 instance(s) of "F" in the string.
There were 2 instance(s) of "T" in the string.
There were 1 instance(s) of "a" in the string.
There were 1 instance(s) of "d" in the string.
There were 1 instance(s) of "e" in the string.
There were 2 instance(s) of "n" in the string.
There were 2 instance(s) of "o" in the string.
There were 1 instance(s) of "s" in the string.
There were 1 instance(s) of "w" in the string. |
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See also strpos() and
substr_count().