Re: Checking character count

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:45:19 +0100 To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Message-ID: <20050608174519.GB18626@us-lot.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 20 September 2007 14:03:58 GMT

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:30:52PM +0100, Alice Good wrote:

> Does anyone know whether it is possible to check for the number of 
> characters in a block of text?

It is. How you do that rather depends on the programming language you
are working in.

Simple Perl example: 

  perl -e "print scalar split '', 'The quick brown fox'";

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