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PHP-General - Lenght last word in a string
Hello,

I am trying to find a way to calculate the "lenght" of the last word in a string.

E.g.

$string = "This is the last word";

lenght of last word: 4

$string = "This is the last word with a space ";

lenght of last word: 5

$string = "Hola Hi Bonjour w";

lenght of last word: 1

I really don't know how to do it even if it shouldn't be that complicated..

Thank you in advance for your help!
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Hello,

I am trying to find a way to calculate the "lenght" of the last word in a string.

E.g.

$string = "This is the last word";

lenght of last word: 4

$string = "This is the last word with a space ";

lenght of last word: 5

$string = "Hola Hi Bonjour w";

lenght of last word: 1

I really don't know how to do it even if it shouldn't be that complicated..

Thank you in advance for your help!


1) Use rtrim() to remove ending spaces (and other unwanted characters)
2) Use strrpos() to find the position of the last space.
3) Use substr() to remove the last word
4) Use strlen() to get the length.
5) It's "length" not "lenght"
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Thanks, I'll work on it..

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1) Use rtrim() to remove ending spaces (and other unwanted characters)
2) Use strrpos() to find the position of the last space.
3) Use substr() to remove the last word
4) Use strlen() to get the length.
5) It's "length" not "lenght"
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you could do it this way also
PHP Code:
 $string="This is a String ";
$string_exploded=explode(" ",trim($string)); 
$length=str_len($string_exploded[count(string_exploded)-1]); 


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