[prog] Length of a string in Perl

[Wolfgang Petzold]

Hi all!

Dan Richter, 28.05.03:
> What Perl function can I use to get the length of a string?

There's a string function called 'length'. Just try:

$ perl -e '$a="seppel"; print "$a: ", length $a, "\n";'
seppel: 6
$ _

You can find a description in perlfunc(1) by searching for 'length'...


Wolfgang Petzold

PS.
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