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Returning number of characters in a phrase

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c4n

c4n

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Mar 12, 2002
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How can I return the number of characters (including spaces) in a phrase the easiest/fastest way in Perl?

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$somevariable = "12345';
$length = length $somevariable;
print $length;


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