Hello Monks,
I am working on a little CGI App. And I am having some problems with the following code. 

$p_challange = $challange . ":" . time;
$sys->p_log("Challange: $p_challange\n");
$sys->p_log("String Lenght: " . lenght($p_challange) . "\n");
while ( lenght($p_challange) gt 16 || (lenght($p_challange) % 16) eq 0
+){ $p_challange .= "A"; }

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the $sys->p_log function works and there is nothing wrong with it I am 100% sure for that.. But yea when I look in my Log File I get this:

Tue Nov 24 10:44:30 2009 Challange: X[[:yFq:1259055870
Anywho, well it dies on lenght. I have had that issue before so I am wondering.. is Lenght Decapitated or what's up with it? And/or is there another way to ask for the lenght of a string?

Thanks,

Robin

In reply to lenght ()Decapitated? by RobinVossen

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