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



NAME
       strlen - calculate the length of a string

SYNOPSIS
       #include <string.h>

       size_t strlen(const char *s);

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

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

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.

SEE ALSO
       string(3), wcslen(3), wcsnlen(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.25 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/.



                                                           1993-04-12                                                  STRLEN(3)