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mb_strwidth

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(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Return width of string

Description

mb_strwidth(string $string, string|null $encoding = null): int

Returns the width of string string, where halfwidth characters count as 1, and fullwidth characters count as 2. See Tr11/ for details regarding East Asian character widths.

The fullwidth characters are: U+1100-U+115F, U+11A3-U+11A7, U+11FA-U+11FF, U+2329-U+232A, U+2E80-U+2E99, U+2E9B-U+2EF3, U+2F00-U+2FD5, U+2FF0-U+2FFB, U+3000-U+303E, U+3041-U+3096, U+3099-U+30FF, U+3105-U+312D, U+3131-U+318E, U+3190-U+31BA, U+31C0-U+31E3, U+31F0-U+321E, U+3220-U+3247, U+3250-U+32FE, U+3300-U+4DBF, U+4E00-U+A48C, U+A490-U+A4C6, U+A960-U+A97C, U+AC00-U+D7A3, U+D7B0-U+D7C6, U+D7CB-U+D7FB, U+F900-U+FAFF, U+FE10-U+FE19, U+FE30-U+FE52, U+FE54-U+FE66, U+FE68-U+FE6B, U+FF01-U+FF60, U+FFE0-U+FFE6, U+1B000-U+1B001, U+1F200-U+1F202, U+1F210-U+1F23A, U+1F240-U+1F248, U+1F250-U+1F251, U+20000-U+2FFFD, U+30000-U+3FFFD. All other characters are halfwidth characters.

Parameters

string: The string being decoded.
encoding: Parameter

Return Values

The width of string string.

Changelog

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Examples

mb_strwidth() example

php

<?php
var_dump(
    mb_strwidth('a'),       // LATIN SMALL LETTER A
    mb_strwidth("\u{ff41}") // FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER A
);
?>

The above example will output:

output

int(1)
int(2)