Re: Counting number of characters in a string

[Anonymous Monk]

@arrayToReceiveChars = split(//,$varHoldingString); $len = @arrayToReceiveChars; print $len;

[Anonymous Monk]

if you're not in a subroutine, doing a split in scalar context: $length=split(//, $string) acheives the same thing. Don't do this in a subroutine though, or else you'll clobber your @_.