NAME

strlen - find length of string

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS



size_t strlen(const char *s)

DESCRIPTION

The strlen() function computes the length of the string s.

RETURN VALUES

The strlen() function returns the number of characters that precede the terminating NUL character.

SEE ALSO

string(3)

STANDARDS

The strlen() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'') .