[SOLVED] Count characters minus some characters

[web_master]

Hi,

 

I got a text in dBase for example

 

<b>12345abc</b> (this is sum 27 chars)

 

this mean <b>12345abc</b> (this is 8 chars and <b></b>)

 

How can I count from database to divide <b> and </b> (or other) from counting

 

I know for

 

$CharS = $request['text'];

 

echo strlen($CharS);

 

but this count all of chars.

 

thnx

[dennismonsewicz]

you could use this

 

http://us.php.net/strip_tags

[Adam]

He'd need to convert them to HTML tags first, try:

 

echo strlen(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($CharS)));

 

A

[sloth456]

maybe use str_replace to replace both sets of tags with blanks.

[web_master]

He'd need to convert them to HTML tags first, try:

 

echo strlen(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($CharS)));

 

A

 

THIS WORK!