strlen(3) CLIX strlen(3)
NAME
strlen - Returns the length of a string
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc.a)
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>
int strlen(
char * string );
PARAMETERS
string A pointer to a string of characters
DESCRIPTION
The strlen() function returns the number of bytes in the string pointed to
by the string parameter. The string length value does not include the
string terminating null character.
EXAMPLES
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
main()
{
int len;
char *string;
string = "hello world!";
/* This call returns the length of `string'--it should be 12 */
len = strlen(string);
printf("The length of the string `%s' is %d\n", string, len);
}
RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: index(3), rindex(3), strcat(3), strcmp(3), strcspn(3),
strchr(3), strcpy(3), strncat(3), strncmp(3), strncpy(3), strpbrk(3),
strrchr(3), strspn(3)
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