string length

[vertigo]

Hello
Sorry for such simple question:
i have:
my $myval="long sentence...."
How can i count $myval length (how many characters does it have) ?

Thanx
Michal

[Marek Dabrowski]

vertigo wrote:

Hello
Sorry for such simple question:
i have:
my $myval="long sentence...."
How can i count $myval length (how many characters does it have) ?

Thanx
Michal

length("some string");

[Jürgen Exner]

vertigo wrote:

my $myval="long sentence...."
How can i count $myval length (how many characters does it have) ?

We haven't had this SAQ (Self Answering Question) for a while: perldoc -f
length

jue