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Hi to all,
I’ve a very simple slice of code thats seem wrong for buddypress’s members list, any help will be very wellcome!

$userz = bp_get_member_user_id(); 
 $field='Country';
 $country = bp_member_profile_data(array('user_id'=>$userz,'field'=>$field ));
 $lenght=strlen($country);
 $type=gettype($country);

I even try the before approach like $country=bp_member_profile_data('field=Country');

But in both case $lenght is equal to 0, and $type is null but the field is correctly printed then on the mebers loop with a regular echo. I put gettype just to check why strlen doesn’t work! I need it to trim the string to a lenght with substring…