Rob,
> I have a need to iterate through a multibyte string to process the string
> character by character.
> -- Is using mb_substr($str, $i, 1) the only way to get this to work in php5?
> That's my question.
>
> It seems like it's going to be many times slower according to some of the
> comments I've seen on the multibyte functions in the php manual.
This might be a bit quicker:
$str = "string with utf-8 chars åèö";
$t = preg_split('//u',$str,-1,PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
var_dump($t);
Dan
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