strlen

I havent found much online how to do this..I just want the user to type out a string and using strlen, give the user how many characters he/she typed..anyone can help real quick? Regards.

-andy

Noone´s quicker than mr.goolge:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...&q=strlen%28%29

Using strlen() is easy. Just pass it a string, and it returns the number of characters in the string (not including the NULL character at the end). Here's an example from MSDN:

/* STRLEN.C */

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <dos.h>

void main( void )
{
char buffer[61] = "How long am I?";
int len;
len = strlen( buffer );
printf( "'%s' is %d characters long\n", buffer, len );
}


Where exactly are you having problems? With the user input, or with using strlen()? There are a number of ways to get user input into a string.

Ahh...thx for the google link..i forgot to put the () at the end of the strlen in my search. I understand now guys, thanks!

-andy