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¶

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO¶

string(3)