String Character Length
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You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
In this task, the goal is to find the length of a string.
mIRC
Compiler: mIRC
alias stringlength { echo -a Your Name is: $len($$?="Whats your name") letters long! }
Python
Interpreter: Python 2.4
length = len("This string length will be determined")
Perl
my $length = length "Hello, world!";
Unix Shell
With external utilities:
string='Hello, world!' length="$(echo -n "$string" | wc -c | tr -dc '0-9')"
With SUSv3 parameter expansion modifier (works in ash/ksh/zsh/bash):
string='Hello, world!' length="${#string}"
C
#include <string.h>
int main() { const char *string = "Hello, world!"; size_t length = strlen(string); return 0; };