Yes, I know that. I meant your string with all the ampersands -- those are HTML Entities. They represent those characters, but in order to get the actual characters, you need to decode that first.
This is where HTML::Entities comes in. Feed your string through decode_entities, and then do your thing with encode_guess, if needed still. The length of the output of decode_entities($title) is the string you should find the length of.

~Thomas~ 

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thank u very much....

use HTML::Entities;
$title=decode_entities($title);
my $title_length=length($title);
$title=encode_entities($title);
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It's working

I told you :-)

~Thomas~ 

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