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Counting number of characters in a string
@arrayToReceiveChars = split(//,$varHoldingString); $len = @arrayToReceiveChars; print $len;
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Re^2: Counting number of characters in a string
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Anonymous Monk
on Nov 19, 2009 at 16:45 UTC
if you're not in a subroutine, doing a split in scalar context: $length=split(//, $string) acheives the same thing. Don't do this in a subroutine though, or else you'll clobber your @_.
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