I prefer the use of brackets as well in this instance. For any beginers just starting out here's the code using brackets.

$someText = "Happy happy joy joy";
$someTextLength = length($someText);
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I found it difficult reading posts when I first started out because people were talking casually about stuff that was way over my head.I had no clue what they were on about, so I thought I would simplify this for any newbies

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