in reply to Counting number of characters in a string

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
 
{
   my $string = "Oh please, good sir program, what is my length?";
 
   printf ("The length is %d characters\n", howlong ($string));
 
   use Inline C => <<'END_OF_C_CODE';
 
   #include <string.h>
 
   int howlong(char *s)
   {
      return strlen (s);
   }
 
END_OF_C_CODE
}

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Re: (jcwren) Re: Counting number of characters in a string
by tye (Sage) on Mar 13, 2001 at 02:48 UTC

    What do you have against nul bytes? (:

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re^2: Counting number of characters in a string
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2010 at 07:13 UTC

    It didn't working

    use strict;
 
{
   my $string = "Oh please, good sir program, what is my length?";
 
   printf ("The length is %d characters\n", howlong ($string));
 
   use Inline C => <<'END_OF_C_CODE';
 
   #include <string.h>
 
   int howlong(char *s)
   {
      return strlen (s);
   }
 
END_OF_C_CODE
}

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[d/l]

      Works fine on Linux. I imagine you're missing either Inline::C or string.h and the associated library.

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