For example, this is my table, which is called example:
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| id | en_word | zh_word |
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| 1 | Internet| 互联网 |
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| 2 | Hello | 你好 |
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and so on...
And I tried using this SQL Query:
SELECT * FROM `example` WHERE LENGTH(`zh_word`) = 3
For some reason, it wouldn't give me three, but would give me a lot of single letter characters.
Why is this? Can this be fixed? I tried this out in PhpMyAdmin.
But when I did it with JavaScript:
"互联网".length == 3; // true
And it seems to work fine. So how come it doesn't work?
you should use CHAR_LENGTH
instead of LENGTH
LENGTH()
returns the length of the string measured in bytes.CHAR_LENGTH()
returns the length of the string measured in characters.
LENGTH returns length in bytes (and chinese is multibyte)
Use CHAR_LENGTH to get length in characters
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_char-length
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_length