Question

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?

Answer 1

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.