Probs with strlen ??

[Hanjo Grüßner]

Hello,

I'm doing like this:

if (strlen($Name_vor) > 0)
echo '</table></fieldset>';
But the program never goes into the 'echo' branch.

I tried to get strlen($Name_vor) before the condition and it is definivly

0

From te manual strlen returns an INT.

What is wrong ??

TIA

Hanjo
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[Janwillem Borleffs]

Hanjo Grüßner wrote:

Hello,

I'm doing like this:

if (strlen($Name_vor) > 0)
echo '</table></fieldset>';
But the program never goes into the 'echo' branch.

I tried to get strlen($Name_vor) before the condition and it is
definivly

0

There might be a previous condition overwriting this one. BTW, as anything
above 0 evaluates as TRUE in PHP, you could simply do:

if (strlen($Name_vor))
echo '</table></fieldset>';

Or even:

if ($Name_vor)
echo '</table></fieldset>';
JW

[max]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:41:34 +0200, Hanjo Grüßner <ha***@gruessner.de>
wrote:

Hello,

I'm doing like this:

if (strlen($Name_vor) > 0)
echo '</table></fieldset>';
But the program never goes into the 'echo' branch.

I tried to get strlen($Name_vor) before the condition and it is definivly

0

From te manual strlen returns an INT.

What is wrong ??

TIA

Hanjo

If you're just checking that $Name_vor has a length (and, thus, that it
exists) can you not go -

if ($Name_vor) do_such_and_such;

Have you had a look at www.php.net/strlen ? One of the contributions there
helped me solve a problem -

QUOTE
Beware: strlen() counts new line characters at the end of a string, too!

$a = "123\n";
echo "<p>".strlen($a)."</p>";

The above code will output 4.
UNQUOTE

[Andy Hassall]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:41:34 +0200, Hanjo Grüßner <ha***@gruessner.de> wrote:

I'm doing like this:

if (strlen($Name_vor) > 0)
echo '</table></fieldset>';

But the program never goes into the 'echo' branch.

I tried to get strlen($Name_vor) before the condition and it is definivly

0

From te manual strlen returns an INT.

What is wrong ??

Can you post a minimal test case reproducing the problem?

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[Andy Hassall]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:28:56 GMT, max <ma****@homtail.com> wrote:

If you're just checking that $Name_vor has a length (and, thus, that it
exists) can you not go -

if ($Name_vor) do_such_and_such;

Not the same. Consider: $Name_vor = '0';

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[Hanjo Grüßner]

Am Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:38:00 +0200 schrieb Andy Hassall <an**@andyh.co.uk>:

Can you post a minimal test case reproducing the problem?

Thanks, I found the mistake - as stupid as it could be:

I wrote $Name_vor instead of $Name_Vor

Greetings from the sunny shores of the baltic sea

Hanjo
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http://www.gruessner.de

[Bill Godfrey]

=?iso-8859-15?Q?Hanjo_Gr=FC=DFner?= <ha***@gruessner.de> wrote:

Thanks, I found the mistake - as stupid as it could be:
I wrote $Name_vor instead of $Name_Vor

You have learnt your lesson well grasshopper. Switch on all errors and
warnings and declare your variables before using them.

Bill, fwsh fwsh.

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