Re: Counting chars in a HTML-page

Remember that length() will give you the total number of bytes including control characters, while M$ Office will only give you the number of glyphs (visible, symbolic characters).

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Re^2: Counting chars in a HTML-page by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2008 at 15:42 UTC
perldoc -f length `Note the characters: if the EXPR is in Unicode, you will get the number of characters, not the number of bytes. To get the length in bytes, use "do { use bytes; length(EXPR) }", see bytes.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Counting chars in a HTML-page
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2008 at 15:42 UTC

Note the *characters*: if the EXPR is in Unicode, you will get
the number of characters, not the number of bytes. To get the
length in bytes, use "do { use bytes; length(EXPR) }", see
bytes.
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