Re^4: length() returns wrong result

in reply to Re^3: length() returns wrong result - suspicious magic
in thread length() returns wrong result - suspicious magic

while ( $sth_sel->fetch ) {
  $txt = $txt;
  printf "%3u %3u %3u %s [%s] [%s]\n",
      ++$i, length($txt), bytes::length($txt),
          (utf8::is_utf8($txt) ? ' utf8' : '!utf8'), $txt, $xml;
}
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