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Manual Reference Pages  - STRLEN (3)

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strlen - calculate the length of a string

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#include <string.h> 



size_t strlen(const char *s); 

The strlen() function calculates the length of the string s, not including the terminating ‘\0’ character.

The strlen() function returns the number of characters in s.

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

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