PHP String Length Without strlen()

Question

Just browsing over the latest release of the PHP coding standards, and something caught my eye:

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/CODING_STANDARDS?revision

Answer 1

To get the length of a string zval (variable in C) use Z_STRLEN(your_zval) see zend_operators.h at line 398 (PHP 5.4) :

#define Z_STRLEN(zval)          (zval).value.str.len