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count_chars

(PHP 4 >= 4.0b4)

count_chars -- Return information abouts characters used in a string

Description

mixed count_chars (string string [, mode])

Counts the number of occurances of every byte-value (0..255) in string and returns it in various ways. The optional parameter Mode default to 0. Depending on mode count_chars() returns one of the following:

  • 0 - an array with the byte-value as key and the freqency of every byte as value.

  • 1 - same as 0 but only byte-values with a frequency greater than zero are listed.

  • 2 - same as 0 but only byte-values with a frequency equal to zero are listed.

  • 3 - a string containing all used byte-values is returned.

  • 4 - a string containing all not used byte-values is returned.

Note: This function was added in PHP 4.0.

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