STRLEN(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRLEN(3) NAME strlen - calculate the length of a string SYNOPSIS #include size_t strlen(const char *s); DESCRIPTION The strlen() function calculates the length of the string s, excluding the terminating null byte ('\0'). RETURN VALUE The strlen() function returns the number of characters in s. CONFORMING TO SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99. SEE ALSO string(3), strnlen(3), wcslen(3), wcsnlen(3) COLOPHON This page is part of release 3.35 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/. GNU 2011-09-28 STRLEN(3)