String.len

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: string

Description

Receives a string and returns its length. The empty string "" has length 0. Embedded zeros are counted, so "a\000bc\000" has length 5.

(number) = string.len(s)

Parameters

s: (string) string for which to measure length

Return values

Returns (number) the length of the string

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