On Monday 09 May 2005 12:24, John Doe wrote:
> Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 11.55 schrieb Andreas Steichardt:
> > Hi!
> > We are storing UTF-8 data in out mysql database and we need to get the
> > length of the data. But length() doesn't return the number of characters
> > but the pure number of bytes.
> > SELECT LENGTH('köter') => 6
> > Currently we are doing something like that:
> > SELECT LENGTH(CONVERT('köter' USING 'ucs2'))/2;
> > This works fine but a "real" solution like CHAR_LENGTH() or something
> > like that would be really apprectiated.
> From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/string-functions.html:
> Returns the length of the string str, measured in characters. A multi-byte
> character counts as a single character. This means that for a string
> containing five two-byte characters, LENGTH() returns 10, whereas
> CHAR_LENGTH() returns 5.
lol....must have been blind as i definately looked in the manual
(interestingly the function is named as i suggested ;) )...
Thanks for the hint and sorry for my blindness,