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strlen(3)							     strlen(3)

NAME
       strlen - Find the length of a string

SYNOPSIS
       #include <string.h>

       size_t strlen(
	       const char *s );

LIBRARY
       Standard C Library (libc)

STANDARDS
       Interfaces  documented on this reference page conform to industry stan‐
       dards as follows:

       strlen(): ISO C, XPG4

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page	 for  more  information	 about
       industry standards and associated tags.

PARAMETERS
       Specifies the string.

DESCRIPTION
       The strlen() function returns the number of bytes in the string pointed
       to by the s parameter. The string length value  does  not  include  the
       terminating null character.

					Note

       If  you pass a NULL pointer as the const char * parameter to the strlen
       function, the function generates a segmentation violation. To avoid the
       segmentation  violation	and  cause  the	 function  to return 0 (zero),
       change the NULL pointer treatment for the process  before  issuing  the
       call to the strlen function, as follows: Include the system header file
       sys/uswitch.h.	Call  the  uswitch  function,  as  described  in   the
       uswitch(2) reference page.

       The following program illustrates this procedure:

       #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/uswitch.h>

       main() {
	       size_t  retval;
	       int     uswitch_val;

	       uswitch_val = uswitch(USC_GET,0);
	       uswitch(USC_SET, uswitch_val | USW_NULLP);
	       retval = strlen(NULL);

RETURN VALUES
       On  successful  completion, the strlen() function returns the number of
       characters (bytes) in the string to which the s parameter points.  Cur‐
       rent  industry  standards specify that no value be reserved to indicate
       an error.

SEE ALSO
       Functions: string(3), uswitch(2), wcslen(3)

       Standards: standards(5)

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