length - return the number of bytes in a string

NAME

length - return the number of bytes in a string


SYNOPSIS

length EXPR

length


DESCRIPTION

Returns the length in characters of the value of EXPR. If EXPR is omitted, returns length of $_. Note that this cannot be used on an entire array or hash to find out how many elements these have. For that, use scalar @array and scalar keys %hash respectively.

 length - return the number of bytes in a string