At 4:18 PM -0500 10/2/06, Richard Lynch wrote:
>On Mon, October 2, 2006 3:07 am, Roman Rumisek wrote:
>> Exists in PHP function returning array size in bytes ?
>> (For saving array into shared memory without serialize.)
>
>No.
>
>And you could maybe write one, if it was all strings in the array, but
>you're gonna be screwed when PHP 6 with Unicode comes out, cuz the
>number of bytes "depends" on where you're gonna store it, in which
>charset, and several other factors...
>
>There was a thread on PHP-internals last month about the the strlen()
>function should or shouldn't do for that -- and if sizeof() should or
>shouldn't do something different.
>
>You probably shouldn't be poking it into shared memory without
>serializing it anyway, I don't think...
>


How about saving the array as a file and then do a filesize()?

tedd
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