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length of text in bytes #48092 08/09/03 08:02 PM
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OP TQ_ Self-satisified door T Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3	i need to get the lengh of text/var in bytes but i did not found anything suitable in the help. i tried writing the text in a file and then gettng $bytes(file,b) but it wouldn`t work. any suggestions

Re: length of text in bytes #48093 08/09/03 08:42 PM
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theRat Hoopy frood T Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 774	/help $len Code: //if ( khaled�isgod ) echo yes \| else echo no

Re: length of text in bytes #48094 08/09/03 08:53 PM
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OP TQ_ Self-satisified door T Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3	said I needed length in BYTES

Re: length of text in bytes #48095 08/09/03 09:00 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,547 Kent, England S SladeKraven Hoopy frood
SladeKraven Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,547 Kent, England	$bytes($file(file.txt), b)

Re: length of text in bytes #48096 08/09/03 09:14 PM
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OP TQ_ Self-satisified door T Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 3	10x

Re: length of text in bytes #48097 08/09/03 09:26 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,547 Kent, England S SladeKraven Hoopy frood
SladeKraven Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,547 Kent, England	I'm sorry. 10x?

Re: length of text in bytes #48098 08/09/03 11:11 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,523 Q qwerty Hoopy frood
qwerty Hoopy frood Q Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,523	...and since 1 character is 1 byte, $len() (which gives the total number of characters in the string) is EXACTLY what you want. /.timerQ 1 0 echo /.timerQ 1 0 $timer(Q).com