Perl (Scripting) - Count characters in a string (length)
by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: March 09 2020
| Perl (Scripting) articles
The length operator can be used to determine the length of a string. In this example, string "Hello World" contains 11 characters (whitespace is a character).
my $string = "Hello World";
my $length = length($string);
print "$length\n";
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