# Count letters in a string! PHP

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/count-letters-in-a-string-php/28111>\
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**Created:** [August 10, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/count-letters-in-a-string-php/28111 "2003-08-10T07:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![andr\_in](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/andr_in/32/37_2.png) [@andr\_in](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andr_in)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/count-letters-in-a-string-php/28111/1 "2003-08-10T07:42:13Z")

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Is there a way to count the number of letters in a string?  
With count(); I would have to split the string into an array somehow but I’m kinda hoping there’s another way!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 10:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/count-letters-in-a-string-php/28111/2 "2003-08-10T10:40:47Z")

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strlen(string)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/count-letters-in-a-string-php/28111/3 "2003-08-10T13:00:28Z")

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thx 🙂