--- Filip de Waard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > strlen() is the correct function to use here. Use it > like: > > echo strlen($_POST['input_name']); > > Where $_POST['input_name'] should be replaced by the > variable you want > to check. strlen() is always right, but it counts > the actual charactars > of the string (which may differ from those who are > shown in the > browser, please look at the HTML source instead).
Thanks - Yep - Lots of spaces in my output... Ive added a small regex & its got rid of the lines :) $pattern = "/\s+/i"; $replacement = " "; $texta= preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $texta); G __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php