mysql_field_len
    (PHP 3, PHP 4 , PHP 5)
mysql_field_len -- 
     Returns the length of the specified field
    
Description
int 
mysql_field_len ( resource result, int field_offset)
     mysql_field_len() returns the length of the
     specified field.
    
     
Example 1. A mysql_fetch_len() example 
<?php $result = mysql_query("SELECT id,email FROM people WHERE id = '42'"); if (!$result) {     echo 'Could not run query: ' . mysql_error();     exit; }
  // Will get the length of the value in email so for example // user@example.com would give us a length of 16 $length = mysql_fetch_len($result, 'email'); echo $length; ?>
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     For downward compatibility mysql_fieldlen()
     can also be used. This is deprecated, however.
    
     See also mysql_fetch_lengths() and
     strlen().