[prog] Length of a string in Perl

[Almut Behrens]

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

length() -- sometimes, Perl is less cryptic than expected :)

e.g.

  $s = "blahblah";
  my $len = length $s;


Almut


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