On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:28 AM, John Campbell wrote:
> mb_substr is always going to be slow because you always have to
> iterate from the beginning get the count, thus the loop will run in
> O(N^2).
>
> In theory, it should be much faster if you just pull the first character.
> e.g.:
Good point. Thanks.
On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dan Cech wrote:
> 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);
Yeah. This is nice. I think we'll use it. I suppose I could write a
benchmark to try to compare. I'll post the results if I do.
Thanks a lot to both of you for the quick response. Much appreciated.
-Rob
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