Re: Checking character count

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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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk

Received on Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:45:24 UTC