length Function in Perl

What is length Function in Perl?

Explanation

The length function returns the number of bytes in a string.

Syntax:


length EXPR
length

In the above syntax, length() function takes a "string" as the argument.

Example :


#! C:programfilesperlbinperl
print "content-type: text/htmlnn";
$string = "Hioxindia";
$string2 = length($string);
print "Length of the string is: $string2n";
Result :

Length of the string is: 9

In the above length Function example the length of the string "Hioxindia" is calculated and displayed as "9".

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