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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 strlen Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Compute the length of a string

Syntax

Integer_Type strlen (String_Type a)

Description

The strlen function may be used to compute the length of a string.

Example

After execution of

   variable len = strlen ("hello");

len will have a value of 5.

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