NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

The Linux Programming Interface

STRLEN(3)                 Linux Programmer's Manual                STRLEN(3)

NAME         top

       strlen - calculate the length of a string

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <string.h>

       size_t strlen(const char *s);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The strlen() function calculates the length of the string s,
       excluding the terminating null byte ('\0').

RETURN VALUE         top

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

CONFORMING TO         top

       SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.

SEE ALSO         top

       string(3), strnlen(3), wcslen(3), wcsnlen(3)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.51 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU                              2012-05-04                        STRLEN(3)

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